Sentence examples for moral blame from inspiring English sources

"I assume the moral blame.

"I really do believe that a very rigorous judgment of moral blame can be lodged against some of these people," Dr. Arras said.

Sir Thomas More, a devout Roman Catholic of the 16th century, argued in his "Utopia" that the terminally ill should be helped from life by a doctor, and that the doctor should be absolved from either legal or moral blame.

But with discussions of moral blame being injected into traffic crashes, he said, the courts are raising the bar on proving guilt by "adding a mental state of wickedness".

But recent court rulings, which said that drivers' actions failed to show moral blame, promise to muddy this already gray legal area further, and may work in the favor of the BMW's driver, Julio Acevedo.

Ahmed Salah, a local human rights lawyer whose clients include Islamists, argued that Islamist groups carried the "moral blame" for creating an environment in which sectarianism was so rampant.

Art is morally powerful because it is indifferent to moral praise and blame.

Moral judgments of blame thus differ from legal or religious judgments of blame in that they are not made about persons who are legitimately ignorant of what they are required to do.

The hypocritical blamer is perhaps the paradigm example of someone who lacks the moral standing to blame.

When X has the moral standing to blame Y, we might say that Y is within X's blaming jurisdiction (Coates & Tognazzini 2012).

Moreover, moral praise and blame, or reward and punishment, seem to make sense only on the assumption that the agent in question is morally responsible.