Today's high unemployment levels could make the hiring of criminals something of a moral outrage when law-abiding citizens can't get jobs.
But, as is often the case, the passage of a law mandated this moral position.
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"We simply don't take the law as a moral compass, " he says.
Indeed, violence isn't so much the choice of free moral agents as a law of nature that flows as predictably from certain circumstances as rivers flow to the sea.
Tax havens also play a very valuable moral role by providing high-quality rule of law in an uncertain world, offering a financial refuge for people who live in nations where governments are incompetent and corrupt.
He vigorously dissented from both Romer and Lawrence, arguing for the right of a democratic majority to embody its moral views in the law.
We need to believe that people have a sense of duty born of moral and ethical principle rather than the law.
Thus it would seem that the industry has a strong moral and legal justification to ask the government to enforce copyright law more effectively.
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.
He said although employers were within the law by not paying the living wage, there was a "moral aspect".
Lucky for us, American visual artists have a law, the Visual Artist Rights Act (VARA), which grants moral rights to visual artists.
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