"Human rights" are a useful rule of thumb for judging a country's moral performance, but a wobbly basis for wars of intervention.
For example, one can appraise someone's moral performance as stellar and hate or envy her for precisely that reason.
Reverential respect for morally good persons contrasts with the duty to give recognition respect to all persons in our attitudes and conduct, for the former is something we can't help feeling for some people, while the latter is a way we are obligated to comport ourselves toward all persons regardless of our feelings and their moral performance.
Superiors take all these as indicators of a person's moral performance".
In contrast, "deficiencies in moral performance say more about an individual's capacity to improve and become a reliable colleague".
Because both kinds of errors (normative and technical/judgment) can gravely harm patients, Bosk wondered why controls over moral performance would take precedence over controls of technical performance.
More significantly, in the set of tests that psychologists have dreamt up to quantify moral health, their performances clearly bespoke an ignorance of the conceptual foundations of morality.Some of these tests, such as an "awareness of consequences" test, measure spontaneous thinking in social situations, such as accidentally receiving too much money in a business transaction.
His cast, too, match to the clarity of Churchill's moral vision, with performances that are straight and true, entirely without fuss or artifice.
I think, Are you a good person?" Cohen's vision of character is much closer to "moral character" than "performance character," and so far, that vision remains the dominant one at Riverdale.
His original approach to performance, where his sincere human curiosity gravitates toward intelligence, energy, inventiveness, and authentic emotion rather than toward a theatrical declamation, makes him something of a crucial talent scout — and also leads him to ever more probing dramatic investigations of the moral implications of performance.
