Because this is not a health care reform bill — it is a health care attack bill that is cruel, morally unjust and inhumane — and incompatible the core moral value of respecting the dignity of every human being.
Furthermore, supererogationists of the unqualified kind would resist this exemption-based analysis as playing down the positive moral value of supererogation and relegating it to the morally neutral category of the "permitted" (Heyd 1992).
"The moral value of the picture is important," Soulié said.
Only when the other is recognised, geographically and historically, is the true moral value of a given situation revealed.
We need to renew the tradition of ethical socialism and our commitment to the moral value of equality.
I want to suggest that, rather like money, the moral value of suffering is to be found in how one uses it rather than in itself.
According to utilitarians, the moral value of any action is measured according to the amount of happiness that results from it.
For decades the anti-abortion movement has brought together a broad alliance of conservatives concerned about both the moral value of a fetus and traditional gender roles.
At the rhetorical peak of his piece, Sorkin allowed for Hollywood's "squabbling," but put stock in the moral value of its work: We create movie moments.
Forget for a moment about the moral value of improving the lives of millions of teen-agers (and the lives of their families).
YESTERDAY'S post on Venezuela's drive to reduce income inequality calls to mind an earlier debate, still percolating through the blogosphere, on the moral value of economic growth.
