The killer had learned moral absolutism in religious schools, and the uses of violence in the army.
It would hardly seem necessary to insist on the perils of moral absolutism in our own tawdry age.
More important, an entrenched moral absolutism has made it all too easy to ignore the cries of activists.
On the contrary, it leads to its opposite - moral absolutism - since it presumes a universal standard by which to judge behavior.
Both efforts put moral absolutism before local pragmatism.
Such moderate pragmatism is a world away from the moral absolutism usually preached by business ethicists.
There can be nothing but hubris in a position that substitutes one moral absolutism for another while pretending to offer humility.
But moral absolutism is hard to swallow in hard doses.
Ethical calculus would most accurately be regarded as a form of dynamic moral absolutism.