Sentence examples for moral disconnect from inspiring English sources

Rather, it expresses a moral disconnect, the misuse of power and a complete lack of empathy for the child's experience.

Naturally I had to write about this moral disconnect in a commentary titled "Playing at Torture: Fifty Shades of Shame".

All these characters feel a bit cartoonish, their moral traits disconnected from their not-quite-believable circumstances.

Mr. Kissinger argues that policies stemming primarily from moral purpose, disconnected from the national interest, would probably fail and would exhaust the country.

Hume makes the further observation that even if religion does not put itself "in direct opposition to morality", it nevertheless puts forward a "frivolous species of merit" that suggests "a preposterous distribution" of praise and blame based upon a perverted moral standard that is disconnected from any real human needs and interests (D, 12.16/222; cp. EM, 3.38 199; 9.3/ 279; 9.15 / 279).

There's a disconnect between the moral pygmies who led the war and the moral catastrophe that resulted.

It's when we reach this point that I see a potential disconnect, maybe even a moral hazard.

The culture trained people to employ a module in which their critical intelligence gets shut off, and in which people disconnect from their usual moral moorings.

Attributing independent moral agency to computers, Johnson claims, disconnects them from the human behavior that creates, deploys and uses them.

In Animal Dreams (1990) a disconnected woman finds purpose and moral challenges when she returns to live in her small Arizona hometown.

They propose to extend the class of moral agents to include artificial agents, while disconnecting moral agency and moral accountability from the notion of moral responsibility.