amoral
Example Sentences
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If Pericles’ funeral oration is a landmark of democratic virtue, the amoral facts of pure force become explicit in the “Melian dialogue” following the Athenian conquest of the neutral island of Melos in 415 B.C.:
I think because AI is built by some pretty amoral/awful people, we assume it must inevitably be amoral/awful.
From Los Angeles Times
Those ideas all came from a simple thesis: that capitalism is amoral and will gobble up anything it’s allowed to gobble up.
From Los Angeles Times
In “Barking Dogs Never Bite,” he probes what viewers see as ethical food versus amoral, offensive cuisine.
From Salon
He invited controversy, however, not by advocating a more amoral, realpolitik foreign policy but by delivering a finger-wagging, highly moralistic lecture about, among other things, how our allies are insufficiently liberal about free expression.
From Los Angeles Times
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