In March the French crossed the Pyrenees unilaterally, undoing the "moral solidarity" established at Verona.
It's comforting to think that we can undo the moral and economic failures of the criminal-justice system without relinquishing any of our desire to punish people who commit acts of violence.
This controlled balance is the happiest state available for human souls as well as the most moral; so if imitation undoes the soul's justice, it brings both vice and misery.
These four movements — the "ex-gay", intelligent design, conservative bioethics, and climate-change denial movements — rely on fallacies such as the false-choice dichotomy, which portrays certain choices as absolute either/or questions, to dismiss the work of the scientific establishment as conspiracies that threaten to undo society's moral foundation.
By defeating evolution, they hope (in the DI's words) to undo the "destructive moral, cultural, and political legacies" of materialist philosophy.
A central premise of his campaign was his pledge to restore America's moral standing in the world by undoing the anti-terrorism policies of his predecessor, Mr. Bush.
If we're ever going to undo our culture's moral fixation on eating, we need to address not only the direct offenses we face in our personal lives, but also the subtle ways the media conditions the public.
It undid every last legal and moral justification that held together a whites-only Old South, and it seriously undermined much of the legally ensconced racism of the North.
I felt for Superintendent Hastings and his lovely wine-lit meal of moral confliction ("I took vows. I can't undo them").
But even apart from the very serious moral damage, the crisis here is one that ultimately will undo even what the enabling moral relativists seem to care most about — their ideological movements.
