Their moral judgments about life and death, so vexing to most of us, become clinical and routine.
Unfortunately, while such humble epistemic abstinence can be admirable, somewhere we have to make definite moral judgments.
We also often ignore moral judgments and moral feelings that concern spouses, close friends, colleagues, allies, and compatriots.
Even more than Iraq, these involve fundamental moral judgments, not calculations of interest.
People are free to impose their own moral judgments, of course, though it probably helps to keep a little perspective.
It takes a while for the TPJ to develop, but by adulthood it lights up brightly in brain scanners when moral judgments run hot.
Between age 3 and 5 children learn that people can have false beliefs, but only by age 7 have they developed the ability to apply moral judgments to other people's thoughts.
If her talk of ethics sounds fluffy, recall that in 1759 Adam Smith earned his reputation by publishing "The Theory of Moral Sentiments, " in which he accounted for the emergence of sympathy and moral judgments.
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In hindsight, it is now obvious that BC did not have the fortitude to function as a dependable repository for the tapes, and that the scholars should have retained them so that they would have the option of exercising their own moral and professional judgments in the event of a subpoena.
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Assange saw these events in sharply delineated moral terms, yet the footage did not offer easy legal judgments.
This has created an oligopoly that lulls users of their ratings into a false sense of security and spreads moral hazard: investors tend to rely on the ratings rather than making credit judgments of their own.
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