Self-defense is moral because the individual self is itself moral.
Dr. PRISCILLA RAY (Chair, American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs): The AMA's position is that while a position on the death penalty is up to each individual person's moral and ethical beliefs, that physicians should not participate in executions.
David Sloan Wilson, of Binghamton University, in New York state, agrees with that point, but reckons the actual moral sense an individual acquires is not arbitrary, as a language is, but is functionally adapted to circumstances.
His view of abortion as a moral wrong but an individual right is unlikely to persuade the pro-life wing of the Party that he would not appoint another David Souter to the Supreme Court.
In general, effective government oversight of individual institutions increases financial resilience and reduces moral hazard by attempting to ensure that all financial firms with access to some sort of federal safety net--including those that creditors may believe are too big to fail--maintain adequate buffers of capital and liquidity and develop comprehensive approaches to risk and liquidity management.
There is some good news to report: both the general public and individual legislators understand and are responsive to the moral imperative of stopping humanitarian crises.
Elsewhere, an editorial in Spain's El Pais agrees that the prize represents "moral support and encouragement to overcome individual nations' reservations, which impede decisive progress" towards greater integration, including "naturally, political union".
BBC: EU's Nobel Peace Prize: Europe's press has mixed response
But in a free society the moral footing for peaceful lawbreaking must be an individual's readiness to take the consequences, argue in court and fight for a change in the law.
The same moral tradition that defines marriage also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God's sight.
Conservatives like to contrast what they see as a Confucian stress on social harmony and moral rectitude with the West's emphasis on individual rights.
In that sense, not only is forgiveness of underwater mortgages a "moral hazard, " it's also cruel policy by the government for weighing on our individual ability to chase the best economic opportunities irrespective of locale.
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