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For example, someone who knows that lying is wrong but decides to lie anyway to improve their situation is acting immorally. #7 When I was in my early teens, my brother and I were shooting airsoft ...
Image credits: efluxr #6. Not a police officer but happened in my hometown. Chief of police was up for a new contract so one of the city manager wrote it up and got the rest of the city council to ...
Moral wrong is an underlying concept for legal wrong. Some moral wrongs are punishable by law, for example, rape or murder. [2] Other moral wrongs have nothing to do with law but are related to unethical behaviours. [3] On the other hand, some legal wrongs, such as many types of parking offences, could hardly be classified as moral wrongs. [2]
Allegory with a portrait of a Venetian senator (Allegory of the morality of earthly things), attributed to Tintoretto, 1585 Morality (from Latin moralitas 'manner, character, proper behavior') is the categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper, or right, and those that are improper, or wrong. [1]
This means that a behavior is not objectively right or wrong but only subjectively right or wrong relative to a certain standpoint. Moral standpoints may differ between persons, cultures, and historical periods. [110] For example, moral statements like "Slavery is wrong" or "Suicide is permissible" may be true in one culture and false in another.
Immorality is the violation of moral laws, norms or standards. It refers to an agent doing or thinking something they know or believe to be wrong. [1] [2] Immorality is normally applied to people or actions, or in a broader sense, it can be applied to groups or corporate bodies, and works of art.
The great moral power of an army, as Shay puts it, makes its participants more vulnerable to violation, and to a sense of guilt or betrayal when things go wrong. It was his work with Vietnam combat vets, in fact, that led him to recognize that their trauma often came from a deep sense of betrayal.
Nash has developed a Moral Injury Events Scale, a self-evaluation for troops that asks them to respond to statements such as “I saw things that were morally wrong,” or “I am troubled by having acted in ways that violated my own morals or values,” or “I feel betrayed by leaders I once trusted.”