The difference in penalties for other murders in domestic disputes and Mr. Gattis's sentence "offends a moral sense of proportionality," the board said in its recommendation.
Thus unless one is willing to give up on the idea that morality imposes a proportionality limit and on the importance of positive moral desert for justifying punishment up to that point as respectful of the individual both intuitively difficult to give up there is reason to continue to take notion of retributive justice, and the project of justifying it, seriously.
And yet Christianity also contains a broad strand of what she calls Christian realism, which has led to the concept of "just war" -- the notion of a war conducted in a spirit of moral and ethical reflection, with due attention to legality, proportionality and practical consequences.
The Qur'an's moral code, however, transcends tribal loyalties with a consistency and proportionality analogous to the Hebrew eye-for-an-eye policies.
However, considerations of proportionality might substantially relax, if not absolve them of, such moral accountability.
So, the central question to answer in judging the proportionality of this sentence is whether the desire to punish a whistleblower driven by moral outrage stems from the alleged harm he did US military and diplomatic interests, or whether it derives more from sheer embarrassment.
According to Childress et al., proportionality: 'Is essential to show that the probable public health benefits outweigh the infringed general moral considerations.
In this paper, we argue that a normal potential parent of reasonable prudence has a moral duty to adequately optimize the conditions under which she or his reproductive partner will conceive, though a proportionality calculus calls for toleration of several forms of preconception behaviour that are non-ideal from the perspective of reproductive risk.
France undoubtedly has a moral duty to welcome these distressed, uprooted people, but this effort must be shared in a fair and equitable proportionality with all our European partners.
