Sentence examples for moral rationales from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

He also reported that individuals can only come to an understanding of a moral rationale one stage above their own.

Are we providing moral rationale to frustrated individuals in our society to justify their actions against innocents that in hindsight should deserve no greater credit than rape?

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.

In many ways, then, dominant discourses circulating in neoliberal societies provide moral precepts and rationales for individualized constructions of responsibility that preclude a need for disclosure, notions consistent with longstanding messaging on safe sex from AIDS service organizations to treat all prospective sex partners as potentially HIV-positive.