Expressed in story form, it both assumed ethical principles and recommended moral acts.

A lot of people would have considered it a moral act to take him out.

It would be a most moral act to rid the world of such a monster.

But Milton saw the universe and its creation as moral acts.

The play points out that killing another human being can never be a moral act.

The rest of the world tells you it is a moral act to practice birth control responsibly.

"It seems more like a moral act than a commercial one."

Indeed, using music can be an almost moral act.

One can argue that murder is a moral act, even an extreme form of friendship.

It is fairly common sense, he writes, not to consider moral an act done out of inclination for the self.