Once again, the awe inspired by the most mystifyingly ambitious and splendid human achievements is accompanied by the moral gut-punch of how they came to be.
Arthur sought out Ranger as someone with "moral guts", who would take "a stand against the type of operations we were engaged in".
It seems to be drifting back into Lord Devlin's territory, assimilating legal morality to moral beliefs and gut reactions.
And on a gut moral level, the idea of denying someone coverage because they had cancer last year ranks just as high in my book as the abstract argument that a just society should "cover everyone".
If passed in the Senate, the proposed bill, described as a "moral travesty," would gut health care coverage for millions, ax Medicaid expansions, and allow for discrimination against individuals with a lengthy list of pre-existing conditions that disproportionately affect women.
That's the sort of thing that takes real moral fiber, real guts.
Thirty-four percent of students wrote about the role of their gut instincts, moral compasses, intuitions, or impulses in processing bioethical dilemmas (grouped together as "moral intuition").
It's when moral tribes with different gut reactions run up against each other, Greene said, that the most challenging social problems arise.
"The Night Gardener" is another of Mr. Pelecanos's beautifully delineated moral tales, filled with gut-wrenching turns of fate and razor-sharp, boisterously vivid characters.
The young, too, are becoming more emboldened: the representatives of striking junior doctors have shown guts and moral leadership which shows just how timid and useless older trades union members have become.
He added: "America's moral core is being gutted, and the rest of our moral apple is being made into a bong".
