Materialism, the Internet, modern media, and TV preachers themselves have already done a good job of doing that, especially in the red states (more religious) whose statistics on divorce, teenage pregnancy, and other such "moral" indicators are significantly worse than those of blue states (less religious).
Voters might conclude that the deep-seated causes are not poverty, discrimination and austerity the riots took place in a country whose government currently spends half of its national income but welfare dependency, broken homes and moral nihilism.An indicator of how broad such a reaction might be is readily available.
Within puritan/romantic theocracy "good taste" is a crucial moral quality and indicator of spiritual merit (Campbell).
Modification indices indicated some specified error terms to co-vary and two cross loading from subjective norms and moral norms to indicators of intention.
Hence, "the fact that something is disgusting is not even remotely a reliable indicator of moral foul play" but is instead "irrelevant to moral justification" (148).
The conduct of sex is, as always, a handy indicator of moral standing.
It is hard not to notice how Ibsen's characters are obsessed with retaining — or achieving — a solid grasp on financial security, seeing it as both a necessity of survival and an indicator of moral worth.
In the second study, we replicated our findings with a different indicator of moral obligation and with a different dependent variable.
But I guess we are talking about America, where entitlement is a surefire indicator of moral fortitude.
