These are concepts of great practical significance, even if they sound abstract and platitudinous, because they underlie one's sense of right and moral self-confidence.
Self-defense is moral because the individual self is itself moral.
Because it implements the moral ideal of self-sacrifice to the needy.
Not to do so would set a low and self-defeating moral standard for America as it focuses its attention on this strategically vital region.
Is the moral purpose of those who are good, self-immolation for the sake of those who are evil?
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These gamers also took the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (you can take the self-scorable test, here) to evaluate their psychological foundations of morality, such as whether they value loyalty to a group or whether they respect authority.
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Rand also noted that only an ethic of rational selfishness can justify the pursuit of profit that is the basis of capitalism -- and that so long as self-interest is tainted by moral suspicion, the profit motive will continue to take the rap for every imaginable (or imagined) social ill and economic disaster.
Now they view the U.S. as acting in self-interest rather than according to any moral code.
Charter and its moral obligation not to interfere with a nation's right of self-defense.
If self-sacrifice for the needs of others is a moral imperative, then so is the entitlement state.
These westerners also accept the market as the essential driving-force of any economy, but they too wish to set it within a moral framework that will ensure support for the weak through the compassion and self-discipline of the strong.
Although self-diagnostic tools will encourage better knowledge of our health, this brings about a moral conundrum.
Instead of overwhelming fear or paralyzing self-doubt, the attacks were met with defiance, unity and a sense of moral purpose.
But if there is a moral to this larger story, it is that eating as if there were no tomorrow, can become self-fulfilling prophesy.
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It will be a source of manpower and moral election support for candidates who share the ideals and agenda of small government, deregulation, low taxes, self-reliance, and respect for individual rights.
The remake muddies the waters with self-consciousness: Scorsese and the screenwriter, Wesley Strick, have loaded the movie with apparent moral ambiguities, facile ideas about guilt and redemption, and explicit attempts to portray the scuzzy villain as a mythic nemesis.
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