Sentence examples for morally benign from inspiring English sources
But for such continued progress to be at all likely to occur would seem to require some kind of morally benign conditions in the afterlife, and Kant implicitly assumes that such conditions will obtain.
While the government's use of coercion may be all-things-considered morally benign, the threat of jailing someone may count as pro tanto wrong in a way that, say, paying a reward is not.
Instead, they either will reject that narrative, or they will interpret the show as a fairly typical, morally benign cop drama.
Today, masturbation may serve as a running joke on "Seinfeld," but few are willing to publicly defend it as "a morally innocent and socially benign sexual practice".
A benign but morally upright dictatorship would be preferable to many, where Bhutan does not have an equal say in matters to Brazil, and where there is no need to secure money from the coffers of less benign dictatorships to support the rank and file of the 211 member countries.
The proposals are already under attack, not least by David Cameron's Tories.Getting devolved government up and running again is a messy, morally compromising business that depends on a benign reading of some dodgy characters.
Insofar as we remain morally imperfect requiring government enforcement of moral rights proper, political rights insure that government nevertheless remains mostly benign, never unduly violating moral rights proper themselves.
The reconciliation of North and South required a national repudiation of Reconstruction as "a disastrous mistake"; a wide-ranging white acceptance of "Negro inferiority" and of white supremacy in the South; and a distorted view of slavery as an unfortunate but benign institution that was damaging for whites morally but helped civilize and Christianize "African savages".
Fourth, ethno-national mythologies and similar "important falsehoods" are to be tolerated only if benign and inoffensive, in which case they are morally permissible despite their falsity.
