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moral boundary

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meanings of moraland boundary


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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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boundary
noun[C]
uk /ˈbaʊn.dər.i/ us /ˈbaʊn.dər.i/
a real or imagined line that marks the edge or limit ...
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Examples of moral boundary


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In many contemporary discussions, the negative/positive distinction is used to draw a fundamental moralboundary.
It has considered and rejected a variety of different ways of arguing that the therapy-enhancement distinction in human genetics marks a solid, moralboundary.
We must now see if the treatment-enhancement distinction has any bearing at all on the moral boundary between permissible and impermissible germline or somatic cell genetic therapies.
What new moralboundary is being crossed here?
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Many people will feel that this has crossed the moralboundary, that it is unacceptable and that they are not able to agree with it.
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Do scientists continue within their legal rights or do they stop on that moralboundary?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Norms may provide rules in certain situations where there is a desire for social structure and for moral boundaries.
Such an approach to solidarity emphasises the ways in which cultural or moral boundaries between groups construct social categories for ordering the world.
British consular court records, in particular, offer a unique perspective on the range of moral boundaries that demarcated colonial life.
Once again, the therapy-enhancement appears not to set any firm moral boundaries in genetic medicine.
At the limits are moral boundaries that, on the one hand, command one to preserve life, and on the other, to do no harm.
Liberals, however, were prepared to co-operate with the state, but only within certain moral boundaries.
Just as globalisation has been crossing national boundaries, we know it has been crossing moral boundaries too.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The debate about the moral boundaries of biotechnology and how to control them has begun.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
There are ethical and moral boundaries.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Many modern essentialists claim that right and wrong are moral boundaries which are individually constructed.
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Many people feel that just because it was a closed meeting does not mean that normal moral boundaries can be overstepped without fear of retribution.
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He sees it as a sort of decadence, a world-weariness, and the wilful rejection of the moral boundaries governing the world.
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As is often the case, those transgressing moral boundaries stood to profit from that exercise.
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The love songs open up into indeterminate statements about the emotional orbits lovers take, and the topical themes pass over artificial moral boundaries and leap into wide-ranging social observation.
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