moral consideration

collocation in English

meaningsofmoralandconsideration

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moral
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒr.əl/
us
/ˈmɔːr.əl/
relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than ...
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consideration
noun
uk
/kənˌsɪd.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
us
/kənˌsɪd.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
the act of thinking about ...
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(Definition ofmoralandconsiderationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmoral consideration

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The protection of the community in research is coming to be acknowledged as an importantmoralconsideration.
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When does this new human individual deservemoralconsiderationor acquire moral rights?
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Accordingly, some socio-historical conditions may impede any validmoralconsiderationof some relevant practical matters.
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We will begin, however, with an account of why trustworthiness must be the centralmoralconsiderationof medicine.
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Note also that it is capacity for suffering, not merely capacity for pain, that qualifies such beings formoralconsideration.
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The secondmoralconsiderationis that hard-line evidentialism is doctrinaire and dogmatic in its affiliation with naturalism.
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That would be selfish, and hence not amoralconsiderationat all.
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There's no reason to believe that mice experience deprivation and pain less sharply than we do or value their lives less, but our language removes them frommoralconsideration.
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He argues that sentient beings must be givenmoralconsideration, not that the moral significance of their suffering is the same as that of human beings.
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That is, it makes moral sense and is not inconsistent with a general liberal view of morality to take especially important interests as worthy of separatemoralconsideration.
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In deciding, however, which of the two penalties is to be applied for the same offence, nomoralconsiderationis to be taken into account.
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In considering that point we must weigh it in conjunction with themoralconsideration.
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I do not see myself how anymoralconsiderationcan come in.
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Indeed, it is an affront to anymoralconsiderationas to the status of marriage.
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Obligation to register is not underpinned by amoralconsideration.
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In any case there is the strongmoralconsiderationin the matter.
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There is amoralconsiderationhere.
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There is also themoralconsideration.
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There is amoralconsideration.
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There are those whose lives are not controlled, as they should be, bymoralconsideration, to whom the disappearance of another human being would seem to bring untold relief.
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