Sex and revolution!" I pointed out that, despite the revolution's immense human costs, plenty of the social and moral ills — corruption and inequality — of old China persist.
The pornography industry, long accustomed to being a scapegoat for the country's moral ills, is now being blamed for America's economic failings, too.
I have come to the realisation that parts of Syrian society have now suffered that most horrible of all moral ills: they are indifferent to injustice.
Barbara Forrest writes, "The ID movement developed out of the rejection of evolution by people who believe that the moral ills of the modern world have been caused by Charles Darwin's revolutionary idea".
While a century ago the social gospel led the church to address the moral ills of poverty by advocating for things like the income tax and social security, we more recently witnessed the growth of the "health and wealth gospel" and those who believe that wealth is God's blessing upon the worthy and poverty a sign of God's disfavor.
Partly because they do so badly, but also for other reasons, mimetic arts bring moral and psychological ill effects (2).
The angst over teen pregnancy is a classic example of ill-informed moral panic.
And this is so annoying – because, all the while, there is something strong here struggling to find its form as a drama, rather than a moral fable about the ill-effects of broken homes and addiction.
Camus offers us a way of abandoning our pointless quest for "oneness" with ourselves, but carrying on nevertheless, fighting: For some ill-defined moral justice, even though we have ceased to be able to define it.
I ask you, is it happening again?" Mr. Kerry also spoke of the moral cost of an ill-conceived war -- of the atrocities soldiers find themselves committing when they can't tell friend from foe.
