What Anderson finds most remarkable about his boss is the way Pearson took "infinite pains to inculcate his convictions on the moral objectives of the newspaper column and the just society".
The story is an old one in which politicians, who often begin with the best of intentions seeking tirelessly to achieve their various moral objectives, ultimately find themselves in compromising situations, capitulating to the views of their supporters, political advisers, or even adversaries.
"Matt and I see it as both a business and a moral objective to see that our game is diverse and inclusive," said Rice.
Nevertheless, most have the capacity to resist and employ a disciplined mode of survival and focus on the moral objective that inspired them in the first place.
Transparency, independence, the free flow of information, moral clarity, objective truth — these notions took hold and flourished in the last century at papers like The Times.
To be sure you will now give different answers than you once would have when you are asked about moral facts, objective truths, irrefutable evidence and so on; but when you are engaged in trying to decide what is the right thing to do in a particular situation, none of the answers you might give to these deep questions will have any bearing on your decision.
In sum, I do not know how consciousness works, or the likelihood of variation that would allow natural selection to bring forth moral instincts, objective knowledge and conceptual thought.
Dimitra Fimi, a Tolkien scholar, argues that Tolkien's invention of Qenya started as a quest for the ideal language, to match the moral and aesthetic objectives that were part of his project of creating "a mythology for England".
Such things as the description of homosexuality as an "objective moral evil" are tolerable only so long as "objective", "moral" and even "evil" are understood as theological terms of art, and theology is understood to have nothing to do with our human needs and understandings.
Or the objective criteria might establish that in some limited cases it is an objective moral truth that conflicting moral practices are both morally permissible.
Hampton sounds a similar theme, contending that through its expressive content—"representing the rapist as master and the victim as inferior object"—rape does an objective "moral injury" to its victim's value (1999, 135).
