"moral rightness" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the quality or state of being morally right or just. Example: The decision to donate all profits to charity was seen as a display of moral rightness by the company's stakeholders.
Consider utilitarianism and other consequentialist approaches to the normative structure of morality, which interpret moral rightness in terms of the value of the consequences (of actions, policies, institutions, or other objects of moral assessment).
If overall utility is the criterion of moral rightness, then it might seem that nobody could know what is morally right.
Mill's theory of morality is welfare-oriented at its core because moral rightness is determined by goodness, which is itself to be understood in terms of the welfare of individuals.
The overwhelming sense was of humiliation, that friend and precursor to moral rightness.
With Gorbachev in power, less & less do we have a menacing Soviet Union to provide us with a sense of moral rightness.
Soldiers who are morally prepared to accept the justification for killing in war "fight with the assurance of moral rightness," Kilner says.
Utilitarianism is a normative-ethical theory that holds that the moral rightness or wrongness of an action should be ascertained in terms of the action's consequences.
And some of his greatest truthtelling is directed at the institution of marriage, whose social and moral "rightness" Mommy insisted on.
What better way to inculcate national pride in today's kiddiewinks than with this rip-roaring festival of British pluck, ingenuity and all-round moral rightness?
Some fathers who severely beat their misbehaving children, or some soldiers who engage in "punitive rape," are confident in the moral rightness of their acts.
But Mr. DeLaughter appeared never to doubt the moral rightness of his cause, saying to the 1994 jury: "Is it ever too late to do the right thing?
