Sentence examples for moral reactions from inspiring English sources

As humans we have natural moral reactions to the beings around us — sympathy for other people and animals.

Whether such a full understanding will involve seeing us as having moral beliefs (and not just moral reactions) that might be true, is not at all clear.

But we can explain our moral reactions (which he will let you call "observations") and our moral beliefs without needing to appeal to any moral facts.

We suggest that these moral reactions to PrEP as a risk-reduction option are related to broader social and community concerns about the potential for PrEP to radically change the way prevention is practiced.

QUESTION FROM GUEST: Why do you think Chatroulette generates such a strong "moral" reaction from people?

"People often have a very deep, primal, moral reaction – that even speaking about that person is giving them too much attention," he says.

Richard Gephardt... Stephanopoulos's liberalism was born as a moral reaction to Reaganism: the deep cuts in social spending, the acceleration of defense spending.

It makes sense to have a moral reaction to the closing of libraries: literacy underscores the universal declaration of human rights, including the right to education, the right to work and the right to freedom of opinion and expression.

Some would argue that this is a properly moral reaction, but this retributive impulse can motivate legal and policy decisions that many see as unjust, such as three-strikes laws, harsh mandatory sentences, and the mass incarceration of racial minorities.

The norms that have been violated are so many and so profound, and the risks so large, that the only moral reaction is to refuse to normalise (suddenly the most overused word in English) the abrupt arrival of reality-show kleptocracy, with a gold-plated sheen, in the democracy that anchors the world order.

Yet she is palpably uncomfortable with the responses of this second group, for their post-Auschwitz view of Western evil has led them to a "paralyzed moral reaction" to Sept. 11, as if they couldn't condemn one evil because they believed in another, as if by calling the attacks evil, they would be lending support to "those with fewer scruples".