The phrase "moral rationale" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the ethical or moral justification or reasoning behind a decision, action, or belief. Example: The moral rationale behind the company's decision to switch to eco-friendly packaging was to reduce their carbon footprint and contribute to protecting the environment.
It was difficult to understand, or justify, the tactical or moral rationale in some of the strikes.
"The moral rationale for taking steps to end the deaths and suffering in Syria, after five years of brutal war, is evident and unquestionable," it said.
And since a September 2011 drone strike deliberately killed an American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who had joined Al Qaeda in Yemen, the legal and moral rationale for such strikes has been hotly debated.
Many of the icons of non-violent protest cited by protesters – Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks – were successful not simply because of the moral gravity of their protest but because their protests were rooted in a wider story of grievance, with clear stories of injustice, moral rationale for their acts of refusal, and deeply linked to their own communities.
Speaking at the National Defense University, Obama used his first televised address since military operations began in Libya nine days ago to outline a moral rationale for intervention in civil conflicts such as the push underway to topple Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.
Kirk had a moral rationale for the Trinity project — development brings money and jobs to the city, jobs bring families that will eventually invest themselves in the city's decaying schools, and so on — but the outcome ultimately depended on his ability to negotiate and cut deals.
In a new paper, he and Hélène Landemore, an assistant professor of political science at Yale, propose that the arguing and assessment skills employed by groups make democratic debate the best form of government for evolutionary reasons, regardless of philosophical or moral rationales.
Sad to say, shoes have been dropping like rain.Indeed, they have.Felix Salmon excerpts comments from Warren Buffett that include some interesting thoughts on municipal bonds and moral hazard:The rationale behind very low premium rates for insuring tax-exempts has been that defaults have historically been few.
On the other hand, to exclude other explanations is to insult the poor people who didn't riot (ie, most of them).One place the moral and socioeconomic rationales intersect is in the issue of broken families and absent parents, problems that seem to be both causes and effects of deprivation, and that disproportionately affect African-Caribbean people.
Philosophers have also disputed the underlying moral and legal rationales for the structure of marriage, with implications for questions such as the content of its moral obligations and the legal recognition of same-sex marriage.
Environmental laws that the United States passed in the 1970s drew heavily on ethical environmentalism, which grounds duties to protect the environment in moral and aesthetic rationales.
