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- noun philosophy
Doctrine which advocatesignoring moral issues and norms.
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- noun the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid
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Examples
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Mr Audens brand of amoralism is only possible, if you are the kind of person who is always somewhere else when the trigger is pulled.
Inside the Whale 1940
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MTV back in the 1980s has exploded into the easy access of Youtube. 1980s amoralism and early 21st century paranoia induce the same political apathy and numbness.
Archive 2010-01-01 Eeleen Lee 2010
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MTV back in the 1980s has exploded into the easy access of Youtube. 1980s amoralism and early 21st century paranoia induce the same political apathy and numbness.
Elvis and Ellis Eeleen Lee 2010
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Anarchy cannot be on any political spectrum, as anarchy is not a political theory any more than amoralism is a form of ethical theory.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I Feel Like I’m Taking Crazy Pills 2009
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All digs aside what you may view as a dispassionate amoralism can also be viewed as not letting fear or anger cloud ones viewpoint.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Gift suggestion for the Ruddbot/Obama love in. 2009
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That's the point, and it could not have been portrayed any better than this, paralelled along side the amoralism of the monsters.
The Mist (2007): B 2008
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Hypocrisy, though not evident regarding Bennett, is far superior to its replacement in the modern era, relativistic amoralism, as pure behavior seems lacking amongst our fellow humans.
"For Republicans, there's only one candidate of hope: Hillary Rodham Clinton." Ann Althouse 2008
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And not only did the LDL (left, Democrats, liberals) let them do it, they replaced it with a form of amoralism -- a watered down social determinism.
Charles H. Green: War Criminals and Liberals: How the Right Stole the Right to Moral Language 2008
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Addressing an audience that was torn between the demythologizing heritage of the enlightenment on the one hand, and attempts to reassert traditional moral and religious principles on the other, Scott combines the economic amoralism of progressive historical discourse with the romance of disinterested personal virtue.
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Nonetheless, the mind can fall under the spell of this amoralism, and when one does, it is not the case that one begins to act amorally, which is impossible for moral creatures; rather,one loses touch with the moral law and begins to act in a disordered fashion.
Crucified Between Two Thieves:Catholic Social Thinking vs. Right and Left 2007
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