Sentence examples for moral yardstick from inspiring English sources

By what universal moral yardstick does a wounded spirit mitigate murder?

His role in the narrative, though never anthropomorphized, becomes that of an additional character, providing what amounts to a moral yardstick by which the others can be assessed.

Despite its numerous moral blotches, the United States may still rank above other nations by an evenhandedly applied moral yardstick.

I do want a world where my kind of do-gooders have more tools to increase the good they do, but not at the cost of empowering algorithms that score media against someone else's idea of a moral yardstick.

In fact, previous U.S. presidents had negotiated and made deals with leaders and governments who under any moral yardstick would have been considered even more "evil" than the Ayatollahs in Tehran -- and that includes Mao's China; the U.S. had even formed a military alliance with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union during World War II.

One yardstick is moral or religious: Was I good?

If they endorse the standard, they should be prepared to defend their prescriptions by reference to it; if they reject it in favor of a different yardstick for moral decency or goodness, they should be prepared to make explicit and defend the rival standard.

"But it is also humorous and I see humour as something moral, because it invokes the yardstick of goodness in order to be funny, as though to laugh is sometimes the last thing left to us.

But the point is his action contributes to the further undermining of the institutional process; it has a negative moral effect as judged by the yardstick of what that process ought to be in that institution at that time.

We have a moral responsibility to seek shared moral convictions that yield yardsticks for judging proposals for change," says Miller.

The extent to which universal well-being is secured by a practice is a useful yardstick for assessing claims by contemporary evolutionary ethicists to be contributing valid moral insights.