This also starts to get into another principle: Moral Hazard, the idea that if there are no perceived consequences to an action, we slack off.
If, on the other hand, you want to argue against government intervention, then a useful card is moral hazard : the idea that individuals will take bigger risks if they expect to be bailed out.
He fatally undermined the idea that moral behaviour is a matter of dispassionately calculating the likely outcomes of alternative courses of action and plumping for whichever option stands to yield the greatest utility or happiness.
One argument against big bailouts is moral hazard--the idea that if you bail the banks out now, future bankers will take even bigger risks.
"I didn't support them, I didn't say I think they were moral, I have no idea if they were effective or not, " says Mr. Boal.
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The chance of being called up is slight, but there is still, for some, a moral obligation to oppose the whole idea.
Willie Zingani, the presidential spokesman, said it was unfortunate that the issue is coming up now since the idea to introduce Religious and Moral Studies in secondary schools was mooted back in 1981, 15 years before Mr Muluzi assumed power.
Perhaps they just like the idea of handing over responsibility for moral decisions to somebody else.
To a secular leftist who has traded the very idea of sin for a more flexible moral view, there is only one remaining outrage: hypocrisy.
The idea of extending copyright also has a moral appeal.
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Talking of London, your candidate for London and now Tory Vice Chairman Steve Norris was saying this week very strongly that if we believe in equality and so on there is nothing against the idea of gay marriages, quote "no moral barrier to the civil registration of gay partnerships", do you agree with that, you don't, do you?
Pick away at this idea of natural equality, however, and the moral limits of economic theory begin to emerge.
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It was interesting to see just how far the boundaries could be pushed with an idea which, initially, seemed completely unmarketable on moral grounds.
The groups oppose the idea because they believe that the government has a moral obligation to pay for service-connected injuries for the men and women who risked their lives serving the country.
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The altruist idea that the need of one man is a moral claim on the lives of others sets up a race to the bottom, where needs multiply and ability is punished. (This was unforgettably dramatized in the story of the 20th Century Motor Company, in Atlas Shrugged).
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The idea of balancing some cosmic scale, of restoring the moral order to equilibrium, is deeply appealing.
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"By building understanding I think we can get away from the idea that mental illness in young people is primarily a moral problem or a random disaster and try and move understanding more toward a rational direction, " said Prof Bullmore.
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The idea that morality is a culturally-conditioned response straightforwardly implies moral relativism, and Prinz embraces it.
World citizens embrace the idea that the United Nations and other multinational organizations are imbued with a moral authority not found in nation-states like ours.
In so doing he made clear that his idea of pressing the restart button with the Islamic world involves erasing the moral distinctions between the Islamic world and the free world.
Insurers have a list of other things banks can learn too, including the idea that getting a customer to retain a part of a risk reduces moral hazard something investment banks' pass-the-risk-parcel approach to securitisation blithely ignored.
Politicians of all stripes like the idea of private companies paying their lowest-paid workers a bit more, for moral reasons and also because it could save the government a shedload of cash.
In one of the best of these, "Crime and Punishment, " from 1991, he rejected the idea that punishment must always serve utilitarian purposes (rehabilitation, deterrence) and defended, on moral grounds, the concept of retribution.
The five percent rule of the London market seems a good idea too, but you could argue that hard coded fire breaks could lead to a kind of moral jeopardy.
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