Sentence examples for moral catastrophe from inspiring English sources

For the U.S., Vietnam has been a moral catastrophe of dimensions unprecedented in the country's history.

Not just in terms of force of arms, but a moral catastrophe in terms of ourselves.

This time has been a monumental moral catastrophe for our generation.

Huston not only presents the physical hardships of battle; he creates the war as a cultural and moral catastrophe.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

But it would be a sordid retreat into chaos and murder that would fuel the political and moral catastrophe in a city beloved by the world.

(Of course, Nozick, perhaps inconsistently, also acknowledges the existence of moral catastrophes).

This first response to "moral catastrophes," which is to ignore them, might be further justified by denying that moral catastrophes, such as a million deaths, are really a million times more catastrophic than one death.

Deontologists have six possible ways of dealing with such "moral catastrophes" (although only two of these are very plausible).

Taurek's argument can be employed to deny the existence of moral catastrophes and thus the worry about them that deontologists would otherwise have.

Shultz called the human rights violations in Bosnia a "catastrophe, a human tragedy, a moral tragedy". Shultz also disagreed with U.S. policy in Somalia.