that is “morally wrong or socially opprobrious” (Alicke, 2000)—is a prereq- uisite for moral condemnation and most legal punishment, and so being found blameworthy can have serious conse- quences, from social exclusion to imprisonment. But by what process do we determine that an action is...
In other words, it was not the consequences of actions that make them right or wrong but the motives of the person who performs the action. Kant argues that to act in the morally right way, people must act from duty. Kant argues that those things that are usually thought to be good, ...
but the 5th Circuit did not reach that argument. The Justice Department told the Supreme Court in filings that it should not either, and its Office of Legal Counsel said in December 2022 that the law does not prohibit the mailing of mifepristone...
The great irony here is that ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders have endorsed the elections of the very officials, including Donald Trump, who made the destruction of 50 years of US legal precedent regarding a woman’s right to an abortion possible. Many liberal and secular Jews saw this coming. ...
Current use of the term "ethics" reflects the plurality of legal, moral, and reli- gious convictions in pluralistic democratic societies (Arias-Oliva et al., 2020). In this regard, ethical judgment is the cognoscitive process whereby people "judge which course of action is morally right" (...
The Society elected not to take legal action against the infiltrator and MPS also decided not to request that the videos taken by the infiltrator be made publicly available (which would have clearly shown the true state of the animals), and not to immediately declare its...
(b) with reports that are expected to be written in English, and (c) with goods and services that, albeit legal in the countries analyzed, are still recognized to create a physical or psychological addiction in consumers according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (...
For instance, aggressive behavior is appropriate in a highly competitive society while it is morally wrong in some cultures. Although there is a wide range of cultural customs in the world, almost all the cultures consider some kinds of behavior such as violence, rape, and theft unacceptable. ...