Sentence examples for moral repugnance from inspiring English sources

So much for the pretence of moral repugnance.

The moral repugnance of these regimes trumps the appeal of their Westernization.

Yet legislators expunged that right when its moral repugnance (and decreasing economic utility) caused widespread public concern.

So while it is normal to react to these tragedies with varying degrees of moral repugnance, let us not be shocked.

There should be no doubt about the moral repugnance of Alabama's law, which seeks to deny hardworking families the means to live.

Cameron and Osborne wring their hands at the "moral repugnance" of "aggressive avoidance", but are doing nothing serious about it whatever.

For many legal scholars, moral belief or repugnance "is not sufficient to outlaw conduct engaged in by consenting adults".

If morally neutral terminology is used for morally repugnant acts, it reduces the sense of repugnance.

Their repugnance is a moral test, for the filmmaker and for viewers alike.

A number of psychologists, philosophers and biologists (most recently Stephen Pinker, also in The Times Magazine) have similarly argued that repugnance is morality's early warning system, an alarm bell that warns that a subject deserves moral scrutiny.

Those topics offer easy moral choices; few rational Americans disagree about, say, the repugnance of the Ku Klux Klan.