We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare.
Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?
Tag: charity general-welfare government-programs public-service moral-responsibility
[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.
Christopher HitchensTag: guilt greece henry-kissinger cyprus moral-responsibility cyprus-dispute makarios-iii
Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world.
Ann ClwydTag: morality law genocide iraq iraq-war international-law saddam-hussein al-anfal-campaign moral-responsibility kurdish-genocide responsibility-to-protect
The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral interest in us, having communicated already with humanity in the past, and might try to boss you around in your private affairs.
With hypothetical advanced aliens residing at a safely distant address in the hypothetical multiverse, that is - to the relief of folks like Gribbin, Dawkins and the New Scientist - manifestly not the case.
Tag: science judgement responsibility aliens richard-dawkins intelligent-design accountability theism dawkins extraterrestrials id moral-responsibility multiple-universe multiverse multiple-universes new-scientist
We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and so on.
Alexander McCall SmithTag: morality neighbors moral-responsibility
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
Alekandr I. SolzhenitsynTag: moral-responsibility
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.
Mother TeresaTag: inspirational pro-life moral-responsibility
Humans are unique in having the astonishing capacity to extend our sympathies far beyond the here and now. through time and space, to anywhere and anything we choose. It is our culture that decides how large and inclusive our moral circle is, but it is each of us who makes up our culture. (p.250)
Andrew WestollTag: empathy animal-rights caring apes moral-responsibility
If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.
Rick YanceyTag: inspirational moral-responsibility
Bonhoeffer examined and dismissed a number of approaches to dealing with evil. "Reasonable people," he said, think that "with a little reason, they can pull back together a structure that has come apart at the joints." Then there are the ethical "fanatics" who "believe that they can face the power of evil with the purity of their will and their principles." Men of"conscience" become overwhelmed because the "countless respectable and seductive disguises and masks in which evil approaches them make their conscience anxious and unsure until they finally content themselves with an assuaged conscience instead of a good conscience." They must "deceive their own conscience in order not to despair." Finally there are some who retreat to a "private virtuousness. Such people neither steal, nor murder,nor commit adultery, but do good according to their abilities. but... they must close their eyes and ears to the injustice around them. Only at the cost of self-deception can they keep their private blamelessness clean from the stains of responsible action in the world. In all that they do, what they fail to do will not let them rest.
Eric MetaxasTag: injustice ethics conscience self-justification moral-responsibility dealing-with-evil
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