Smoking was then seen as most unladylike, and in an effort to preserve the morality of New York women, the Board passed the Sullivan Act, named for Timothy (Little Tim Sullivann, a Tammany alderman who represented the Bowery.
Most of those who deny that one or more types of moral luck exist are those who seek to preserve the centrality of morality in our lives.
What is indecent is the application of Sudan's public order laws, which have done nothing to preserve and enshrine any morality.
Among those who wish to preserve the centrality of morality in our lives, many have appealed to an idea formulated by Nicholas Rescher (1993), according to which "[o]ne cannot meaningfully said to be lucky in regard to who one is, but only with respect to what happens to one.
If we are at heart a moral person -- as most of us believe ourselves to be -- how do we maintain our own morality and preserve our own integrity in the face of our basic desire to feel wanted, to feel alive and to find passion?
Ms. Monahan brings up the concept of a state's "police power," which means its inherent right "to preserve the public security, order, health, morality and justice".
The Mohist movement originated during an era of turmoil and violence, and it is possible that their conception of a unified morality is intended to comprise only the minimal moral standards needed to preserve social harmony.
But in the Postscript, Williams makes a distinction between morality and ethics that allows him to deny the existence of moral luck, thus preserving a certain integrity for morality.
Those rationales — encouraging responsible procreation and childbearing, nurturing heterosexual marriage and traditional morality, and preserving scarce resources — have become harder to deploy.
Those rationales encouraging responsible procreation and childbearing, nurturing heterosexual marriage and traditional morality, and preserving scarce resources—have become harder to deploy.
