Sentence examples for moral blindness from inspiring English sources

Our refusal to take in the rotting as a category of its own was, he suggested, with a delighted literary grimace, a kind of moral blindness, part of a fake dialectic that blinded us to the muddled, rotting truth of the world.

Vilification, confusion, self-deception, moral blindness: Is this Judaism?

This was Waugh's favorite joke, a Wildean joke: moral blindness, asserted without shame.

It's a certainty that history will look unkindly upon the moral blindness of contemporary Republicans.

Perhaps most grotesque in this postmodern calculus of political repression is the moral blindness displayed towards the record of colonialism.

The defence of Israel seems to induce a moral blindness that is itself portrayed as the absolute in moral righteousness.

"What is happening in the country for such political, moral and cultural blindness to take hold?" Mr. Vargas Llosa, who lives in Spain, said on a recent trip to Peru.

These are not easy situations, but we can avoid moral hypocrisy and blindness by distinguishing bad actors from worse ones, holding all politicians to a standard that like actions should result in like punishments regardless of party, and by treating accused who falsely smear their accusers harshly.

In this meditation, the novelist Martin Amis sets out to recall the moral and intellectual blindness that allowed so many to ignore the millions of corpses and the camps, and his heroic voices include Conquest (to whom the book is dedicated), Solzhenitsyn, Koestler, and Akhmatova.

In many instances, violence is neither a cold-blooded solution to a problem nor a failure of inhibition; most of all, it doesn't entail a blindness to moral considerations.

It so happens that vision is an excellent case to illustrate our moral, policy, and pragmatic blindness.