In four different studies involving 672 participants, Sawaoka and Monin found that when people learned about the immoral behaviors of top leaders in a group, they reported greater "moral suspicions" about the other group members lower in the organization's hierarchy.
Nietzsche cast suspicion on the use of moral intuition, which Kant used as the foundation of his morality, arguing that it has no normative force in ethics.
The world of "The Aura" is, quite obviously, a heightened and stylized version of reality, but its governing emotions of dread, suspicion and moral confusion are bracingly real.
The tradition of transparency in Chilean democratic politics was challenged, with both conservative politicians and Concertación politicians being included in the networks of corruption, which even implicated the family of President Bachelet, a moral personality above all suspicion.
For socialists, taxation has a moral element and the suspicion the wealthy were "getting away with it" riled my father in a way it did not a pragmatic one-nation Tory like me.
Among other things it has deepened my suspicion of moral clarity, and also of disembodied rationalism, both of which seem to offer a kind of ethics without human beings.
This suspicion of moral intuitions is more politely captured by James Griffin, who observes that "It is especially in ethics that intuitions have risen so far above their epistemological station" (Griffin 1996: 5).
Not only do the mollies run the risk of capital punishment if they are caught, but the city is in a moral panic fomented by political suspicion and religious fervour.
"His hem-and-haw frown, complete with the familiar one upraised eyebrow, his shortcut way of expressing doubt, suspicion, anger and moral outrage" was screen-tested long before it became a facial expression of global importance.
