moral considerations
Right and wrong
Moral considerations are the ethical factors weighed when making decisions—questions of right and wrong, fairness, harm, and obligation.
Moral considerations prevented him from taking the shortcut.
The phrase appears in contexts where practical interests might conflict with ethical ones: Profit motive aside, there are moral considerations here.
- justiceFair treatment under law
- do the right thingBehave with moral integrity
- utilitarianismGreatest-happiness moral theory
- greater goodCollective benefit over personal
- deontologyMorality based on obligations
metaethics · fairness · human rights · empathy · compassion · duty · conscience · altruism · honesty · accountability · skin in the game · consequentialism · trolley problem · ethical dilemma · lesser evil · slippery slope · community welfare · equality
moral considerationsrealpolitik
Politics prioritizing practicality over ethics
expediency · political expediency · cost-benefit analysis · economic factors · practicality
moral considerationsself-interest
Concern for personal advantage
egoism · greed · profit motive · opportunism · careerism
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