"In Vietnam POW camps, the senior commanding officer would use tap codes to convey certain moral directives such as 'Don't accept favours from the guards unless everyone receives that favour.
If the Internet were to receive its own Ten Commandments — picture a Moses figure descending from Mountain View, clutching a stone phablet etched with a listicle of moral directives — somewhere in there would surely be the phrase "Thou Shalt Not Read the Comments".
The Bible itself also instructs Christians that New Testament moral directives supersede Old Testament moral directives.
I want to stand with every single child endangered by Joseph Kony and the LRA but I am not about to take my moral directives from Jason Russell.
"In the present form of the new directive, such moral objections would no longer be possible," Schweiger says.
Neither the demand to attend to the moral facts nor the directive to apply the correct moral theory exhausts or sufficiently describes moral reasoning.
What you can do to maintain your weight, those kind of things.' The aversion to lifestyle advice seemed to be caused by its directive and moral nature; participants felt judged, rather than encouraged to change their behaviour.
The structure of things being what it is, the principles of practical reason and morality (natural moral law and natural right) can be understood, accepted, and lived by, as fully directive in conscience, without needing to be regarded as (what they really are) an appeal from mind to mind, a plan — freely made to be freely adopted — for integral human fulfillment.
Although these good-reasons moralists, such as Henry David Aiken, Kurt Baier, Kai Nielsen, John Rawls, Marcus G. Singer, Paul W. Taylor, Georg Henrik von Wright, and Geoffrey James Warnock, manifest a wide range of theories on normative issues, they generally agree that the primary function of moral utterances is practical i.e., directive of action rather than emotive and expressive.
Authoritative reasons are claimed to be exclusionary reasons, excluding from consideration those dependent reasons (including, importantly, moral reasons) on which the authoritative directive rests.
