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"moral inconsistency" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it when you want to express a contrast between two or more moral beliefs or behaviors. For example, "The mayor's public support for prison reform contradicted his earlier stance of moral inconsistency."
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Moreover, this kind of moral inconsistency is morally culpable, revealing one not to be fully morally trustworthy as a moral agent.
The moral inconsistency of this simple but crucial fact when set alongside the associated notions of white exclusiveness and exceptionalism just seems to be beyond their reasoning.
Danny befriends his Ukrainian baby sitter and together they conspire to retaliate against what they consider the moral inconsistency of his parents forbidding him to eat pork even though they have it whenever they eat out.
We did not think that winning elections gave Bush the right to repress all opposition, and anyone who thinks that Ahmadinejad's dubious triumph gives him a license for brutality is guilty of, to put it mildly, moral inconsistency.
Machines Like Me belongs to the genre of speculative fiction, but in its narrow focus on morally ambiguous characters in a bleak cityscape it also owes a debt to film noir, sharing noir's conviction that nothing is more human than moral inconsistency.
Doesn't a brazen piece of hypocrisy feel refreshingly honest in an age of subjective individualism that can so cynically tolerate such moral inconsistency?
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When one begins to attempt to untangle the grand knot of American contradictions — to say nothing of our personal moral inconsistencies — one ends up very tired.
A couple of months ago, Fifa finally proposed much tougher sanctions for dealing with racism, and you have to think that they were in part embarrassed into the move by the troubling moral inconsistencies the transparency has repeatedly highlighted in recent years.
They would not speak of moral confusion or inconsistency but of ambivalence.
Such adeptness at inconsistency, without moral uneasiness, is essential for executive success.
Today, the inconsistency between moral claims of adhering to human rights and democratic values by the west, while continuing to support authoritarian leaders who are oppressing their own people, is massively contributing to anti-western sentiment in Iraq and the Middle East at large – a sentiment that is unfortunately expressing itself through violence.
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