But moral damage and a misperception of reality usually are not enough to lead to murder.

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The moral damage we suffered is so much more than our physical losses.

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Rather the long-term effect is moral, in terms of damage done to the reputation of all clergy, guilty or innocent.

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No amount of remorseful op.ed. articles will obscure that reality, or mitigate the damage done by his moral equivalence.

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The greatest damage to the jihadis' moral standing has been wrought not by the global offensive but by their own brutality.

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Historians will likely judge the putative intelligence gains made by abusive interrogation techniques were easily outweighed by the damage they caused to the United States' moral standing.

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Having to pay even the slightest penalty in damage to his reputation for the vast array of moral and ethical crimes he has so clearly committed?

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After analyzing data from 47 independent brain imaging studies, researchers found that the rule-breaking behavior common to people with antisocial, violent, and psychopathic tendencies may result partly from damage to the neural circuitry in the brain that underlies moral decision-making.

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