"The government is morally responsible to these families," he said.
It is neither fiscally nor morally responsible to give ourselves tax cuts and leave future generations with an even higher tax burden.
Stakeholder theory sees management as being morally responsible to all stakeholders "because business actions harm or benefit various stakeholders, or because stakeholders have rights, or because stakeholders should be part of the processes which meaningfully affect their lives" (Gilmartin and Freeman 2002, pg. 56).
Yet at the same time, the partner who owned the land was morally responsible to support the other members of the family.
"We certainly think it's in the public's best interest and it is the morally responsible thing to do to put the names out," said Paul Baier, president of Survivors First, a victims advocacy group in Wellesley, Mass., that has compiled a database of nearly 2,000 church officials accused of abuse.
How do we take morally responsible steps to investigate this, and then to act on our findings?
For those who, like me, have come to believe there is no other morally responsible way to be Roman Catholic, this is a gift.
We can identify them as moral agents even though we generally do not hold them morally responsible, according to Floridi and Sanders: they are the source of a moral action and can be held morally accountable by correcting or punishing them.
"All sides of politics need to put aside populist 'tough on crime' rhetoric and punitive policies in favour of an economically, socially and morally responsible approach to criminal justice issues," Gooda said last week.
Against the Free Will Thesis, Nietzsche argues that a free agent (that is, one sufficiently free to be morally responsible) would have to be causa sui (i.e., self-caused, or the cause of itself); but since we are not causa sui, no one can be a free agent.
Diseased mind or not, he was a grown man capable of getting help, and morally responsible not only to do so, but to find a way to stop inflicting harm, even if it meant locking himself in his house.
