The freedom to act and a stern moral obligation to act in certain ways were seen as two sides of the same American coin.
He said: "We have a moral obligation to act on climate change and influence others worldwide to do the same".
"The U.S. has a moral duty to act ... we are waiting for the next steps, " he told The Associated Press by phone from Istanbul.
In a democratic society, this frees us to push our lawmakers to act in a moral fashion, without having to worry that the reforms we are pushing for will harm our financial interests.
Social processes act like a moral fog that envelops all the characters and lets them choose what to do in certain situations.
The second failure in insurance markets is moral hazard: a person who is insured has less incentive to act carefully than an uninsured person.
Lucky for us, American visual artists have a law, the Visual Artist Rights Act (VARA), which grants moral rights to visual artists.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky noted that in the face of genocidal threats civilized nations have a moral obligation not merely to punish the perpetrators after the fact, but to act swiftly and preemptively to prevent such threats from being realized.
Jeane Kirkpatrick, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky noted that -- in the face of genocidal threats -- civilized nations have a moral obligation not merely to punish the perpetrators after the fact, but to act swiftly and preemptively to prevent such threats from being realized.
No one can know for certain if this senseless act could have been prevented, but we all know we have a moral obligation -- a moral obligation -- to do everything in our power to diminish the prospect that something like this could happen again.
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Writing in a New York newspaper, Leon Trotsky, while affirming his "open moral solidarity" with Grynszpan's act, also suggested that it had been "inexpedient" a considerable understatement.
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At root, it is the modern belief that the essence of moral action is neither expecting nor receiving any personal benefit (or, even better, suffering a loss from that act) that underlies the condemnation of profit-seeking.
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