Sentence examples for moral distinction between from inspiring English sources
The good MP is all for lowering the age of criminal responsibility and dragging even more children before adult courts: 'People take the view that if they are old enough to commit the crime, they are old enough to take responsibility.' British society has become so morally distanced from childhood that it has lost the ability to make a moral distinction between it and adulthood.
Gove made a moral distinction between a "hard-working majority" and a "vicious, lawless, immoral minority".
The "trolley problem" is the name for a philosophical thought experiment created as an introduction to the moral distinction between action and inaction.
"State terrorism" and "nonstate terrorism" must be acknowledged and combated equally, without any presumed moral distinction between them, if we are to establish a just international order.
Capitalism does not, for instance, make any moral distinction between what people want and what people actually need – between, say, PlayStations and penicillin.
"There is no moral distinction between dogfighting and cockfighting," Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, said in a statement last week.
"I'm very concerned that many Muslims are attempting to draw moral distinctions between terrorism against Israelis and terrorism against Americans," said Rabbi Hirsch.
Many analysts noted that Americans have always made moral distinctions between abortions, in ways that are rarely explored in the political debate.
Quite apart from anything else, since we define them both as art, it would have established some of the aesthetic, if not moral, distinctions between Bronzino and Prince.
Our European allies can no longer be encouraged to draw moral distinctions between the federal and state governments, as they could during the civil rights era.
He makes no social-class distinction and only provisional moral distinctions between the private eyes like himself and the criminals he pursues.
