He blamed district attorneys who valued conviction rates and tough-guy images over adherence to the rights of the accused.
One possible explanation is that people are not weighing the pros and cons at all, but rather using a moral logic of "sacred values"—convictions that trump all other considerations that cannot be quantified.
Central to the idea of integrity as the virtue of taking one's life seriously would be the idea that a pursuit of integrity involves somehow taking account of one's changing values, convictions, commitments, desires, knowledge, beliefs and so on over time.
That means however exploring beyond our values, convictions, and judgments and venturing into the world of what we disvalue or fear.
The value for conviction ranges within [0.5, ∞].
His books include Mimetic Reflections: A Study in Hermeneutics, Theology and Ethics; Responsibility and Christian Ethics; Power, Value and Conviction: Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age; Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics: In the Time of Many Worlds; Religion and the Human Future: An Essay in Theological Humanism; Dust that Breathes: Christian Faith and the New Humanisms.
This is the downside, I suppose, of one of the most unshakable American values: our conviction that we should be free to invent ourselves, and reinvent ourselves, at will.
Mr Clegg conceded that his election message – that the party would add a "head" to Labour and a "heart" to the Tories in a hung parliament – made the centre ground "sound a bit too much like a tactic, rather than a place rich in values and conviction".
And it's ultimately about the strength of our allegiance to one of the best, and sometimes the most difficult, of our American values: the conviction that this country belongs equally to all its citizens, not just those in the ethnic, religious, or political majority.
They lack significant joint projects and shared democratic values and convictions.
