Sentence examples for wrong act from inspiring English sources

Or do these proposals, instead, trace the wrongness of the wrong act to something other than what is bad for that particular person?

An ongoing controversy raised by the proposals described in this part 3.3 is whether they successfully explain the wrongness of the wrong act in terms of the adverse consequences that act has for the person whose plight has drawn our concern to begin with.

"Continue to speak up, call out every big lie and every wrong act," he said when asked what Flake Republicans could do.

"The country's official strategy was against terrorism and violence; policies of the country must not be condemned if an independent hard-line group has engaged in a wrong act".

How would we know that this is a wrong act or a right act?

Here a moral property of being a wrong act is held to be one and the same property as a complex utilitarian property specified in the non-moral terms of consequence, pleasure, and pain.

A common thought is that "there cannot be degrees of wrongness with intrinsically wrong acts… (Frey 1995, p. 78 n. 3).

Deontologists of either stripe can just deny that wrong acts on their account of wrongness can be translated into bad states of affairs.

Rather, it is to be equated with its being unjustifiable; the character of wrongness is captured by the higher order fact that wrong acts are unjustifiable.

The report said that the company, which initially apologised for its conduct only to then deny that it had done anything wrong, "acted with a cynical disregard for emissions limits which exist solely to protect human health".

What wrong acts have in common is that they cannot be justified to others.