The science of the moral sense also alerts us to ways in which our psychological makeup can get in the way of our arriving at the most defensible moral conclusions.
This is obvious when it comes to an issue like sexual predation: men may have strong sexual urges, but most of those cannot be acted on in a morally defensible way.
First off, it's a relatively defensible way to pay out healthy bonuses.
"Perhaps the most defensible approach is to use revenue to subsidize the purchase of healthful foods".
Of all the reasons to have a low tax rate, this one may be the most defensible, economists say.
"Some of the processes have really had to be unpicked and put back together again in a much tighter, defensible way.
The first and most defensible was sport; last year, the paper laid bare a match-fixing racket in Pakistani cricket — a bigger and more lucrative deal than it sounds.
"The lesson," he adds, "is to find a significant pain and solve it in a unique, defensible way".
Structural realism is considered by many realists and antirealists alike as the most defensible form of scientific realism.
"They are, and in a completely defensible way, artistic in their exhibition and their execution," Willson says about cars that are truly beautiful.
