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Afterlife is a god game released by LucasArts in June 1996 that places the player in the role of a semi-omnipotent being known as a Demiurge, with the job of creating a functional Heaven and Hell to reward or punish the citizens of the local planet.
[68] Russel allows that religious sentiments have, historically, sometimes led to morally acceptable behavior, but asserts that, "in the present day, [1954] such good as might be done by imputing a theological origin to morals is inextricably bound up with such grave evils that the good becomes insignificant in comparison."
[1] [2] Deciding what (if anything) counts as "morally obligatory" is a principal concern of ethics. Philosophers refer to people who have moral responsibility for an action as " moral agents ". Agents have the capability to reflect upon their situation, to form intentions about how they will act, and then to carry out that action.
Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right act (including omission from acting) is one that will produce a good outcome. Consequentialism, along with eudaimonism , falls under the broader category of teleological ethics , a group of views which claim that the moral value of any act consists in its tendency to produce things of ...
[1] [2] [3] It is "the process of arousing social concern over an issue", [4] usually perpetuated by moral entrepreneurs and mass media coverage, and exacerbated by politicians and lawmakers. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] Moral panic can give rise to new laws aimed at controlling the community.
Moral Code of the Builder of Communism (Russian: Моральный кодекс строителя коммунизма) was a set of twelve codified moral rules in the Soviet Union which every member of the Communist Party of the USSR and every Komsomol member were supposed to follow.
A person who is corrupt is or has been spiritually or morally impure, or is acting/has acted illegally. By extension, the term is applied to a document, database or program being made unreliable by errors or alterations. Corrupt may also refer to: Corrupt, an Italian thriller film; Corrupt, an American crime film
Moral reasoning, however, is a part of morality that occurs both within and between individuals. [1] Prominent contributors to this theory include Lawrence Kohlberg and Elliot Turiel . The term is sometimes used in a different sense: reasoning under conditions of uncertainty, such as those commonly obtained in a court of law .