Sentence examples for moral misfortune from inspiring English sources

Further, even in cases where aiding is not in fact possible, it is a graver moral misfortune, ceteris paribus, to leave a being with FMS unaided, as compared to a being without FMS.

Vice685 words indicating an assessment of moral disapproval or misfortune.

Poverty ought to be considered a misfortune rather than a moral failing".

When Overend Gurney collapsed in 1866, it undid once and for all the sense that, give or take a few individual misfortunes, capitalism was a moral force that rewarded skill and hard work.

What is so moral about an American system where the random misfortune of ill health can expose a family to a lifetime of poverty and insecurity?

These categories relate to things like intentional agents, animacy, social exchange, moral intuitions, natural hazards, and ways of understanding human misfortune.

Patricia Tallman is just angry enough as Barbara, though she does have the misfortune to pronounce the film's one, heavy-handed moral; it seems we are the zombies and they are us.

If people were poor and in need, no longer were they assumed to be victims of misfortune or in need of developing the skills or moral qualities to succeed on their own.

During the later period the poem tended to be longer and to concern itself with moral instruction, travel accounts, banishment, and the writer's personal misfortunes.

Although Moynihan didn't coin the phrase (that distinction belongs to the anthropologist Oscar Lewis), his description of the urban black family as caught in an inescapable "tangle of pathology" of unmarried mothers and welfare dependency was seen as attributing self-perpetuating moral deficiencies to black people, as if blaming them for their own misfortune.

It is not that the misfortunes of the rich and beautiful are a greater moral outrage than those of the rest of us.