I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.
Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.
You are responsible for everything you TWEET and RETWEET.
We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.
Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long. Jihad or Holy war would keep festering one way or another, until religiou...
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.
It is up to the individual to 'choose' their repertoire of the self. If they do not have access to the range of narratives and discourses for the production of the ethical self they may be held respon...
There's something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.