I had to laugh when John Bartholomew started off a letter impugning the morals of atheists by citing Richard Carnes’ assessment of Kim Jong Un (“Atheism is the reason Kim Jong Un can’t be trusted,” ...

As wars fraught with incredible savagery engulf the world, as individuals with a lust for wealth, power and revenge are catapulted to leadership roles and then use their position to plunge nations ...

One defensive reply from those who favor legalizing and authorizing torture of military detainees is that those of us who oppose it are preening morally or subject to moral vanity. Unfortunately, when ...

Sure, there’s compromise in the give and take between you and others but not just that. There’s compromise within yourself if you have more than one moral standard. To take a simple example, the 10 ...

Thus, to the Left, nothing is fixed, permanent, absolute. As a result, their “morality” can be adjusted, whenever necessary, to meet whatever exigency is required at the moment. Lying, cheating, ...

Researchers often use hypothetical scenarios to understand how people grapple with moral quandaries, but experimental results suggest that these scenarios may not always reflect real-life behavior.

People gauge others' trustworthiness based on their moral judgments, new research shows. People who are seen as holding to moral absolutes are more trusted and more valued as social partners, the ...

Brenda knows right from wrong down to the fine points. The world is a mess and she’s doing her part to fix it, one friend at a time. You always know when you’ve crossed her moral line. If she doesn’t ...