If this were true, the moral argument for making these promises sacrosanct would be more compelling.
Yet as soon as the Greek nation regained independence in 1830, the force of the moral argument was always on the Greek side.
Leave on one side the moral argument for education.
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While I would prefer that a moral argument might persuade the gun industry to change its ways, especially after the murder of innocent children, unfortunately it comes down to profits and money.
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"The moral argument - I would argue - is the same but there wasn't the same siren calls for change when the change came in for those people renting in the private sector, " he said.
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Let the moral argument hold sway.
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Most of the people making the argument against income inequality are folks who were in favor of greater redistribution before the crisis, folks who see a moral argument for greater equity irrespective of the economics, and for whom the economics is just a new arrow in the quiver.
This so-called moral hazard argument against rescuing those who have borrowed too much or lent too much is in play again right now - with Germany's reluctance to lend its ample financial resources to Greece and Italy, to keep them well away from the brink of collapse during this lending strike by commercial providers of finance.
Some members of Congress believe deeply in the moral-commitment argument, but others are no doubt impressed by the sight of literally dozens of military organizations lobbying Capitol Hill to block the increase.
And often this argument is framed in moral terms: Why should we punish people who are just trying to earn a living?
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Professor DON KETTL (Political Science, University of Pennsylvania): The sense of hypocrisy of an argument in favor of moral values and then not living up to them in the minds of many voters, but just as important a sense that the Republican leadership was at best asleep at the switch, and at worst complicit in an effort to cover this up for sometime.
One argument against big bailouts is moral hazard--the idea that if you bail the banks out now, future bankers will take even bigger risks.
He repeated the argument that there would be moral and political pressure upon Mr Salmond to adhere to, for example, any suggestions from the Electoral Commission for amending the proposed referendum question.
And, if that's the argument, then on what moral high ground do Latinos stand to also push -- as we should -- for Latino actors and actresses to be considered for generic and mainstream roles that could have gone to white actors?
But at the same time, we don't want the whole global economy to collapse, so that's the argument in favor of taking the moral hazard risk and just bailing them out.
Carrie Severino, chief counsel for the Judicial Crisis Network and a former law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, rejected Obama's argument that support for his health care legislation was a moral choice.
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But, we must be careful when using the slippery slope argument that it doesn't become a disguised form of "moral relativism" or irrationalism.
The argument that some matters, such as abortion, are of such moral urgency that they supersede a general preference for devolution sounds reasonable, until you try to decide which subjects are suitably urgent.
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