Sentence examples for morally mistaken from inspiring English sources

His view, designed to explain how judges should think about the law generally, salved the consciences of liberals who believed that blocking economic regulation was morally mistaken while enhancing equality and individual liberty was morally desirable.

A person of integrity cannot, therefore, be morally mistaken.

On the contrary, rule-consequentialism claims those people are morally mistaken.

This principle may be morally mistaken, i.e., there may be situations where even reasonable conduct should result in legal liability.

Thus, the general will, while always morally sound, is sometimes mistaken.

Every thinking member of every high civilization — Egyptian, Greek, Hindu, medieval Christian, etc. — probably has or had the tendency to assume that he or she is on the right track philosophically and morally, that all predecessors were mistaken or at best insufficiently enlightened about morality, and further, that all future moralists are likely to be decadent.

And so the possibility that some of Carrie's freely-made choices — in sex, love, and conspicuous consumption — might actually be not only mistaken but actually morally corrosive could only be hinted at, never fully explored.

There will be some people who end up committed to the mistaken about what is morally allowed.

A dissenter may believe that her cause is just and that her disobedience is morally permissible, but she might be mistaken either about the facts or about her principles.

Unless the decisions are all correct on the merits, any principle based on them must itself be flawed: for if it were morally correct it would not support the mistaken decisions.

This stage is often mistaken for the moral relativism of stage two, as the individual views those interests of society that conflict with their own as being relatively and morally wrong.