What makes him so interesting, though, isn't his astigmatic vision of right and wrong, but the ambiguity of his personality.
"I have acted in a way that violated the obligations to my family and that violates my--or any--sense of right and wrong, " Spitzer tersely told reporters gathered outside of his Manhattan office Monday.
For the most part our concept of right and wrong is in tune with our basic instincts and our understanding of the consequences of our actions.
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It recounts the adventures of a young, skilled fighter from rural Gascony called D'Artagnan, who dreams of joining the Musketeers of the Guard and meets the trio on a journey to right the wrong of his father's death.
Bluntly put, he believes Americans are losing their once-sharp sense of right and wrong.
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They may be a type 1, organized and ethical, with a strong sense of right and wrong.
The moral, then, is that people's sense of right and wrong influences the way they feel and behave.
We have in America a fundamental sense of right and wrong, which is why these scandals are so appalling.
That does not require a radical rewriting of the rules, but a more humdrum sense of right and wrong.
The notions of Right and Wrong are seen as obsolete, replaced by a different notion: You Get What You Get.
"I have decided that my oaths of secrecy must give way to my sense of right and wrong, " he told WorldNetDaily.
In each case, Mr Sandel gently prods readers to check their gut reactions of right and wrong against three philosophical views.
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Mr Simpson said that his father "had a strong sense of right and wrong and pursued his morals through his actions at all times".
Clearly NARAS is attempting to right some sort of wrong (say, the last ten years or so of the Grammy Awards?) with these nominees.
That means one out of every 25 human beings has no conscience, no sense of right or wrong, no empathy, no ability to understand emotion--no soul.
"He epitomised the qualities of a Fijian Kingsman - strong yet gentle, compassionate, principled and honourable, and with a real sense of right and wrong, " the commanding officer said.
The implication is that students and the business world are too crude to have a tacit understanding of right and wrong and need formal instruction in how to recognize the difference.
Mr Miliband told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the breakdown in social order that occurred this week showed many people had lost their sense of right and wrong and there was a "me first" culture.
Lisa Endlich Heffernan, mother of three sons who are now 17, 20 and 21, says she tried to instill a sense of right and wrong by teaching them starting in elementary school that cheating was like lying.
Fleming and co-writer Tiffany Paulsen has set the story firmly in 2007, but their Nancy Drew is an anachronism who dresses in tweedy skirts, preppy knits and penny-loafers, and whose prim sense of right and wrong (she drinks milk and knows CPR) quickly marks her as a social outcast when she moves from provincial Riverside Heights to a new school, Hollywood High.
"The government recognises that religious education has a distinctive and unique contribution to play in teaching children about the beliefs and values underpinning our understanding of ourselves and what is right and wrong, our sense of belonging and respect for each other, " she said.
In each of these stories there was a certainty of knowing right from wrong when they were alone, but somehow their judgement became clouded when they were in the company of friends and they did not speak up to the wrong they knew they were doing.
The fact is it is far better to be wrong at the right time and enjoy the praise of your peers than to be right at the wrong time and loathed.
Mr Ball next treats us to a brisk description of the human eye (remember rods and cones from school biology?), an explanation of why Newton was right and Goethe wrong about the composite character of white light, and an account of the 19th-century regimentation of the continuous colour spectrum by means of colour wheels and other classifying devices.
We need a leader who's willing to take the risk of being right or wrong.
But I think there are right and wrong ways of going about that, and I don't think a blockade is a very constructive approach.
Dzeko was hauled down clumsily by Gardner and Kolarov prowled on the edge of the box before curling the ball deliciously to the right of a bemused and wrong-footed Foster.
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