Sentence examples for moral status from from inspiring English sources

But it is unclear why a token member of a species, a token lacking any of these morally relevant capacities, should get the moral status from the type it belongs to (the species).

Those who believe that a fully human conceptus has full moral status from conception would need to decide how to classify such a chimera and may be confused by the situation.

Buss defends what she calls "the Basic Intuition," according to which "simply because they have exceptional backgrounds, certain wrongdoers have a different moral status from that of more 'privileged' wrongdoers who perform the very same type of acts" (p. 337).

This dramatizes the federal government's continuing failure to provide any means of distinguishing Canadian citizens — thereby denying the superior moral status accruing from the nation's universal health insurance, sensible gun laws, and record forty-two wins of the United Nations' coveted Mister Nice Guy of Nations award.

But, again, it would be question begging to assume that knowledge of their moral status comes from experience rather than a priori, since the possibility of this is what is at issue.

And so, combining this interpretation of the threshold conception with a Sophisticated Cognitive Capacity account results in not according all cognitively unimpaired adult humans equal moral status – a problem from the commonsense viewpoint.

Therefore, the interviewees' views differ from those who debate the moral status of the human embryo (from any position) since they start from a different framework of relevance, one that is dominated by the IVF context and experience.

He rejected the idea that law's normative force could derive from its moral status: like all theorists in the legal-positivist tradition, he acknowledged that laws could fail to be morally justified.

Despite its resolute optimism, this proposal still excludes some human beings from full moral status.

Apart from the moral status of the decisions made, the demand for transparent and democratically informed and supported policy that is pushed by such instrumental values has necessitated inclusion of citizen's perspectives (Wynne 2006).

The idea is that merely having justice on one's side is an inadequate ground for coercing others; one also needs a special title flowing from the moral status of the law.