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But there are times, especially this season, when he realizes that such extreme acts are morally justifiable sometimes.
A general challenge to Rawls's conception of civil disobedience is that it is overly narrow, and as such it predetermines the conclusion that most acts of civil disobedience are morally justifiable.
Simply because an act is not illegal does not make it morally justifiable - slavery did not change its basic nature from moral to immoral the day after the 13th Amendment was passed in the United States, nor did it somehow remain ethical in the U.S. decades after emancipation in the British Empire.
Maybe Cinderella's coach turns into a pumpkin at midnight but acts that are morally problematic don't become morally justifiable according to someone's watch.
A disturbing portrait of a culture that believes routine child torture to be morally justifiable.
Even morally justifiable purposes, such as liberating Europe from Nazi occupation, entail morally problematic acts.
The argument is that there are, or could well be, one-off acts of torture in extreme emergencies that are, all things considered, morally justifiable.
Special moral obligations can only arise from voluntary actions and choices that are morally justifiable (135).
But are they morally justifiable?
Are such killings morally justifiable?
Is breaking the law ever morally justifiable?
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