Do we use our powers of rationality to override our moral instinct?

理性力量战胜了我们的道德本能吗？

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Hegemonic powers lay in between: they did not cheat the people at home or cheat Allies abroad. But they were frequently indifferent to moral concerns and often used violence against non-allies.

霸道则介于二者之间：对国内民众和国外盟友都不欺骗，但往往不考虑道德，并对非盟友使用武力。

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And so the pagan picture of an amoral universe of just competing powers, good and evil, Kaufman says, is transformed into a picture of a moral cosmos. The highest law is the will of God and that imposes a morality upon the structure of the universe.

在异教观念中，一个充满了权力斗争，善神与恶神对抗的，非道德宇宙，变成了,一个道德的宇宙，上帝的旨意是最高的法律,它给宇宙的结构添加了道德这一概念。

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Another is that the regulator has been armed with powers to counter moral hazard the temptation for companies to behave more riskily towards their pension funds once there is an insurance safety-net.

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But how can children develop moral character or even improve their powers of concentration if they don't understand a word they are reading?

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Once we give up our moral compass of government deriving its powers from the people. we must also give up any empirical compass of how much we must surrender to government.

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