Relying on the moral relevance of one's consent and exaggerating its moral significance is all the more tempting when doing so serves one's own interests.
Third, that the distinction has moral relevance, importance, or significance.
He argues that animal rights conflict with the moral relevance of humanity and that empathy for pain and suffering of animals does not supersede advancing society.
Certainly it is the product of a culture that tends to view new art as unmoored from moral relevance and little more than idle child's play.
This is true of all conduct interpreted as having a moral relevance, as being a sign of virtue or vice.
"In a world of diminishing resources, it lacks moral relevance."
In these discussions (the moral relevance of the animal's welfare) two key issues were involved.
Some critics said he had invented a new literary type, infusing the science-fiction form with humor and moral relevance and elevating it to serious literature.
Since the Vietnam War, when the military-civilian gap began to widen, college sports have had a rapidly decreasing moral relevance.
Neither the physical distance between the rich and the poor, nor the fact that they are typically citizens of different countries, has any moral relevance.