Sentence examples for moral proportion from inspiring English sources

If we execute the innocent or the undeserving, then we have undermined, not reinforced, our sense of moral proportion.

When everything is said and done, I suspect that this notion of moral proportion — ultimate punishment for ultimate evil — is the reason most Americans continue to support capital punishment.

You don't need to be a shrink to know that what becomes designated a naughty, or immoral (since fat has now taken on moral proportions) or dangerous treat is then eaten guiltily and thus with decreased, rather than enhanced, pleasure.

This process, aided by wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power, causing the upset of man's moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization".

This objection contends that there is a weighty moral duty to proportion one's beliefs to the evidence, and that this duty flows from moral personhood to be a morally responsible person requires that one have good reasons for each of one's beliefs.

ALMOST one year after anti-government protests began in Syria, a disaster of enormous moral and strategic proportions is fast approaching.

Happiness would still be proportioned to moral worth, but with no one deserving of happiness, no happiness would be conferred.

Hence, as argued, in order for HGi to obtain, there must be a being capable of arranging the world such that happiness is exactly proportioned to moral worth.

Transplantable kidneys, as a very scarce resource, possess in proportion an inherent moral value since they are intrinsic to the moral good achieved by clinically successful transplantation.

There is no sliding scale of moral outrage, increasing in direct proportion to human suffering.

But "the economic gains were in inverse proportion to the moral ones".