Sentence examples for moral defects from inspiring English sources

David Wasserman questions whether all of these evils can be attributed to individual moral defects, and warns us not to underestimate the role of defective institutions ([ 38]: 38]).

Any mental or moral defects or self-interest in the case disqualified witnesses.

The poems are uneven and often obscure, pulled in contrary directions by the subjective impulse to fantasy, the mythic and unconscious, and the objective impulse to a diagnosis of the ills of society and the psychological and moral defects of the individuals who constitute it.

Wertheimer argues that: "...it is absolutely crucial to distinguish between moral defects in [the exploitee's] background situation and moral defects in the transactions that occur within that situation.

Like moral defect, defective reason can prevent someone from recognizing God's existence.

Uniquely among humankind, it would seem that she is afflicted by not a single moral defect.

While the second part remains largely true, causal theories have moved on from descriptions of a "moral defect".

In today's world, children cannot learn about honor from an organization that views homosexuality as a moral defect.

In such a context, the corollary was that those who neglected to take advantage of the ubiquitous abundance must be suffering from some moral defect.

But the grimness of these heroes arose less from the moral defect of being tempted by evil than from their intimate knowledge of its depths.

In 1902, George Still, the father of British paediatrics, gave one of the earliest descriptions of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), calling it a "moral defect without general impairment of intellect" characterised by an "abnormal incapacity for sustained attention".