Art is morally powerful because it is indifferent to moral praise and blame.
Salatin's open-air abattoir is a morally powerful idea.
Secondly, however morally powerful and overdue their words and gestures may have been, it may not be helpful to speak, as some people do, of popes "repenting" for Christian anti-Semitism down the ages.
While the presence of ignorance makes all action even that deemed morally good karmically potent, those actions commonly considered morally evil are especially powerful reinforcers of ignorance, in that they stem from the assumption that the agent's welfare is of paramount importance.
Rob Collins, who plays Waruu (brother of the protagonist, Koen, played by Hunter Page-Lochard and Iain Glenn, who portrays a powerful and morally dubious media baron.
Paul Kagame, Rwanda's president, and his inner circle have built a powerful and morally righteous image by ending Rwanda's genocide in 1994, when they say the world abandoned them, and rebuilding the country afterward.
As Jules L. Coleman, another former student who is a professor of philosophy at Yale University Law School, put it, "Feinberg defends the view that the state's power can be employed against individuals primarily only if their actions are likely to be harmful to others and not, for example, if they are merely offensive or morally repugnant to a powerful majority".
Compassion and critical thinking: as a "brand identity," that's simple, powerful, and morally necessary.
Ron Perlman plays a powerful, arrogant, morally dubious judge who has a breakdown after the attempted suicide of his son — brain dead and on life support but still talking to the old man, who has experienced a religious conversion at the hands of a shady preacher.
Labour thought that it could improve the NHS just by loving it a bit more and being morally superior, oblivious to the powerful internal forces that have repeatedly pushed the NHS to the brink of collapse.
An artist who can illuminate those powerful, ubiquitous, destructive, morally complex feelings and dramatize them in a range of public and private contexts, from professional to artistic to domestic, is one whose work is worth experiencing.
