The moral majority will tighten its hold on corporate life, first in America, but then elsewhere too.
When regulators enforce regulations which reflect a moral principal, moral investors will benefit, and amoral investors will be hurt.
However, the underlying moral issue will not easily be wished away.
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If we raise awareness of this, and a good example is the awareness now of corporate tax avoidance, then a new moral order will assert itself.
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At the same time, he expects the subtle moral message will come through clearly enough to change viewers' behavior, persuading them to buy more auto and homeowners policies.
More is known about the private lives of artists - not least because many draw on their experiences for their work - so moral dilemmas will continue to arise.
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Such advice is predicated upon certain unsupportable assumptions (for example, that nuclear weapons, other military capabilities or mere moral suasion will suffice to deter chemical attacks against this country or its friends and allies overseas).
For now it feels the choice is forget about chasing and chatting about any new media from foreign shores with everyone online, and trusting that your moral choice will help you avoid the big spoilers coming up.
Even though civic responsibility cannot be mandated by law or regulation, any visionary executive will consider it a moral obligation and will lead his company to become a volunteer partner with government to build a fairer society.
There are even statutes in various counties and states on this point for visual art that is on public display, but the strongest moral issues will not help this stand if the result is a legal and tax mess.
Thus, we expect that a moral decoupling strategy will feel less wrong and be easier to justify than a moral rationalization strategy.
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If you preach absolute moral values, you will be held to absolute moral standards.
If, while he is serving his sentence, he decides to be rational and moral, he will recognize his wrong doing and know that justice has been done to him.
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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.
The task force will need moral authority, as much as international law, to extend its reach beyond its own members and sister groups.
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It says to us that he or she has the tools to assess complex situations and make the moral choice, and will use them.
In other words the moral-hazard problem will be even greater.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
The theory behind Glass-Steagall (and GS-lite measures like the Volcker Rule and the swaps pushout provision of Dodd-Frank) is that banks with insured deposits are subject to moral hazard, and will take on too much risk.
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People like me will assess their moral consistency and the strength of their contribution.
Perhaps, if we put ourselves on a course of financial prudence, we will have the moral high ground to demand it of our government and corporations.
Now he has teamed up with a professor from Carnegie Mellon University, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a colleague from Harvard to argue that recent reforms have failed to reduce the risk that auditors will fall into moral traps.
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And in what will be a papacy guided by conservative moral standards on most issues, his past suggests that the fight against poverty will take a primary role.
And public concern over the world's oceans will put governments under moral pressure.
Bottom line: EU backsliding will promptly remove any moral mantle Europeans who opposed the war in Iraq wrapped themselves in three years ago.
First, we will have created "moral hazard" and impaired market discipline.
"Mary was and will always be our moral compass and steady heart, " said the center's co-founders Robin Morgan, Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda in a statement.
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.
But one moral can be drawn now which history will not upset.
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