One could go even further (as Crummell easily could) and argue that if cognitive resources are diminished due to morally pernicious causes, then moral progress will be stymied unless and until a just accounting of those causes has been made, and remedies are carried out.
It is scientifically confused and morally pernicious.
Why worry about the morally pernicious implications of Nozickianism?
Hume adds a further set of objections relating to the morally pernicious aspects of the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments.
That evolution be appreciated as a vital, unifying, and central principle of science; that evolution be no longer misunderstood as religiously, morally, and socially pernicious; and that it be realized that the integrity of science education requires the teaching of evolution properly, effectively, and without compromise: these are three wishes for Genie.
Pernicious result: Moral hazard.
Moorcock thinks Tolkien's vast catalogue of names, places, magic rings, and dwarven kings is, as he told Hari Kunzru in a 2011 piece for The Guardian, "a pernicious confirmation of the values of a morally bankrupt middle class".
Tolkien's work, he writes, is nothing more than "a pernicious confirmation of the values of a morally bankrupt middle class", something not so far from the fascism he had agitated against as a young activist.
Not everyone possesses a moral sense.[19] To Thomas Law (13 June 1814), Jefferson says that want of the moral sense can somewhat be rectified by education and employment of rational calculation, but such educative remedies are blandishments not aimed to encourage morally correct action, because that is impossible without a moral sense, but to discourage actions with pernicious consequences.
The Vatican has blamed a pernicious mixture of insensitive priests, "conspicuously lavish" clerical lifestyles, the sex abuse scandal and a morally lax modern culture dominated by the mass media for large numbers of Catholics no longer living their private lives according to church teachings.
In the obsession to find anti-semites lurking under every stone, you can no longer differentiate between the important work of supporting Jewish students intimidated on campus by Muslim and far-left groups, resisting the pernicious proposal to boycott Israeli academics - or gratuitously insulting, in the name of Jewry, the brave, decent and morally upright Desmond Tutu.
