A wedding is, in my considered opinion, nothing short of a celebration of all that is false and specious and irrational and sentimental in this ailing and morally compromised world.
They may teach very well and more than earn their salaries, but most of them make little or no independent reflections on human problems which involve moral judgment.
Unlike so-called basic emotions such as sadness, fear, and anger, guilt emerges a little later, in conjunction with a child's growing grasp of social and moral norms.
The goal of this theory is encapsulated in Bentham's aphorism that “the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.”
Cyber pornogrraphy, such as naked photos or sexual pictures, is widely spreading and prevalent on the Internet, which distorts and misleads the value of social morality to a large extent.
I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough bass and human nature; and had some new extracts to admire, and some new observations of threadbare morality to listen to.
When I agreed to be your lover, I felt quite sure that my disdain for your vulgarity and astounding lack of scruples would preclude any chance of my developing feelings for you.