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- adjective Not
moral ; unconnected with morals; having no relation to ethics or morals; not involving ethical or moral considerations.
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Examples
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We already know that the massive waste of life in our prisons is morally troubling; those who defend the conditions of incarceration usually do so in non-moral terms (citing costs or the administrative difficulty of reforms); and we're inclined to avert our eyes from the details.
What will future generations condemn us for? Kwame Anthony Appiah 2010
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But considering the whole argument, it makes me feel that the morality of these things - sibling-or national-neoptism, or welfare states, or whatever - is something tagged on afterwards; and that the behaviours arise for quite different, non-moral reasons.
What's Wrong With Fraternalism?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Fortunately, leaders already use many of these tools, though usually for non-moral purposes.
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Fortunately, leaders already use many of these tools, though usually for non-moral purposes.
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But the things it motivates people to do are not moral or immoral, they're just good things of a non-moral sort.
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But the things it motivates people to do are not moral or immoral, they're just good things of a non-moral sort.
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Hawaii tried to prove in same-sex-marriage litigation several years ago that "gay" households handicapped kids -- in strictly non-moral, mostly psychological ways -- in school and in life.
William K. Black: Why Gay Opponents Hated and Feared the Proposition 8 Trial 2010
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But the things it motivates people to do are not moral or immoral, they're just good things of a non-moral sort.
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Hawaii tried to prove in same-sex-marriage litigation several years ago that "gay" households handicapped kids -- in strictly non-moral, mostly psychological ways -- in school and in life.
William K. Black: Why Gay Opponents Hated and Feared the Proposition 8 Trial 2010
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But the things it motivates people to do are not moral or immoral, they're just good things of a non-moral sort.
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