Sentence examples for overriding moral from inspiring English sources

Our physical survival is not what is of overriding moral importance (people give up their lives all the time for some higher value) but our survival as decent human beings acting for a decent society.

The principle of double effect is directed at well-intentioned agents who ask whether they may cause a serious harm in order to bring about a good end of overriding moral importance when it is impossible to bring about the good end without the harm.

IN any case, there is an overriding moral issue.

But for many religious believers this is distressing; they take themselves to have overriding moral and religious obligations to obey God.

If you have a strong sense of the overriding moral superiority of your worldview, then the need to protect and advance it can seem the most important duty of all.

Furthermore, according to the current orthodoxy, prevalent especially in the law, Substituted Judgment is the preferred solution for formerly competent patients because it promises to preserve respect for autonomy as an overriding moral consideration trumping concerns with beneficence.

Flaubert's aim in art was to create beauty, and this consideration often overrode moral and social issues in his depiction of truth.

There are times, often the most important moments in our lives, when in fact we do use reason to override moral intuitions, and often those reasons — along with new intuitions — come from our friends.

As the Catechism states, "methodical research in all branches of knowledge, provided it is carried out in a truly scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the same God".

As Neiman writes, "Precisely the belief that evil actions require evil intentions allowed totalitarian regimes to convince people to override moral objections that might otherwise have functioned" — heinous acts are all too easily rationalized by loyalty to supposedly higher values, and personal feelings of guilt are all too unreliable.

Professor Andrew O'Neill, the Head of the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University, told VICE that Australia could not invite countries like Mauritania and Myanmar on the basis of their human rights performance, but economic concerns tend to override moral principles.