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"Literally promoting the killing of people, isn't that some sort of violation of terms of service?"
"Are we doing the right thing right now with so much more fear of round two?"
"The corporation business model is: we're going to put you out of business. Your business model is more the mafia business model."
"Does the damage it causes by breathing past grizzly details outweigh its value as a piece of art?"
"Why love one but eat the other? You have a dog here and a baby boy cow. Baby boy cows are murdered."
"In what world is it okay to leave somebody lying in their own feces and bodily fluids bleeding and bruised like in in what way is that caretaking in any way shape or form right?"
"If unborn children are dead, why do you need the abortion? The abortion is procured precisely to cause the living child to become a dead child."
"How is it cheating to want to make your club more successful?"
"Desensitized... People think because something's been done for a certain period of time, it's okay."
"It seems callous to not save that first person. It seems insane morally speaking but this is why the meme says that this is the day the deontologist started questioning his belief system."
"Why would you condemn anybody for doing anything in the name of God?"
"Authorizing violence the same as doing violent crime?"
"If the allegations were made about Donald Trump, would that make it right?"
"Why kick him when he's down and go make a whole documentary further cementing the fact that he lied or whatever the case may be?"
"Was what the West has done here worth the cost that we've imposed on the Ukrainian people? And I believe the answer isn't just no, but hell no."
"Death Note is a work of art that gives the audience not just one question about humanity, but many that are pinpointed to make ourselves question our own values."
"There are several unanswered questions... Isn't he smarter than this? Murder is not justice, there is no solace in revenge."
"How can you possibly justify manipulating children?"
"Frankenstein explores the moral and ethical implications of scientific experimentation."
"There will be dirty, nasty War crimey tricks."
"The very definition of they spent so long wondering whether they could, they didn't stop to wonder whether they should."
"What have you done for humanity before bringing another being into it?"
"Should these guys have been arrested for refusing to leave the store when asked?"
"How do we survive as a society if no one is accountable for their actions?"
"Do we really want to use lethal force to stop someone from selling cigarettes?"
"You kill a lot of random monsters (sometimes even humans) in every RPG and the consequences for this are never addressed. What if they were?"
"Am I doing enough and is what I'm doing the right way, the best way?"
"How bad does it have to get before the people tear gassing children realize that they're the bad guys?"
"I always felt like am I just like a shitty person for thinking that?"
"Would you agree that if he had not told sled, that was not full cooperation?"
"Do you think the Nazis just had really really great taste in badass images?"
"How dare you assume that these people wanted their blindness cured, and even if they did, how dare you post this on the internet?"
"A serious question: was this the right way to have done it?"
"If your concerns can't exist on their own without ruining lives, then how legitimate are your concerns?"
"Politics is not about right or wrong, politics is all about winning the next election."
"Wow, Chris, I've never felt so powerful. Is it wrong that I'm into this?"
"When is it ever appropriate for that to happen?"
"Clean conscience? What are we doing in Yemen?"
"Why do we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows?"
"Social messaging is taking facets of our current society and casting a light on it, shining a light on it and saying look you know we have a society that does this is it right or wrong."
"To think that it's okay to do these drone strikes that disproportionately kill civilians, I mean to think that's okay and that it has no consequences, what world are you living in?"
"Can you really come in and change a country like that and then leave it, and everything be okay?"
"There's no good answer to this question. Some people say he was doing what was best for his adopted son, but none of those explanations pass the sniff test."
"How do you feel about being comforted by lies? It feels immoral and offensive."
"Are we following the letter of the law or the spirit of the law? What was the purpose of this law?"
"It's not enough to say is what I did the right thing you also have to ask is it the right thing that the United States is giving aerial support to a genocidal war."
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"Is this really hunting for food or is she hunting for some other reason?"
"Is it really a sin that we want to stop gun violence?"
"To look at the Gauls, was it wrong for the Romans to conquer them?"
"The question is whether we can justify this harm to the people who are harmed by the practice."
"It's not ethical when have your laws ever been concerned with ethics."
"I intended to stop the threat, and stopping the threat means stopping the threat that they could die, right? It's a possibility, yes."
"Is it a Force for good or is it just chaotic neutral?"
"We have a responsibility to ask ourselves how we can best help."
"Is it ethical to climb Everest? That's the question."
"Perhaps you need to ask yourself if you are the baddies."
"Republicans who have not spoken up about this should also ask themselves: Is this the kind of country that I want to live in?"
"Would you kill a man on the path to redemption?"
"Should I push myself? Am I being a stalker guy?"
"If any of you out there, and I mean any of you, actually go this far to cause turmoil and stress in someone's life I just have to ask what in the actual hell is wrong with you?"
"Whether internet investigating does more harm than good then remains an open question."
"You have a moral obligation to ask certain questions."
"Why do people get away with these things? Why do we hold so many people to one standard and then hold all these other people to a different standard?"
"You care about this, well, do you care about the war crimes that are happening right now? It's like, it's not possible."
"That's just all a bit too suspicious, legal question, yeah, if you steal people's stuff and then you give it back to those people, is that distribution of stolen items?"
"The price is worth it. Ms. Albright, what exactly was it that was worth killing 500,000 kids for?"
"Or will we love our neighbors as we love ourselves?"
"What would the world be like if everyone took this action? Would the world be better, worse, or neutral?"
"What you did was unacceptable. What point is there in a greater good if you have to do horrible things to obtain it?"
"Do we shun a wolf for eating a deer? What about parasites?"
"Do I have more of a right to the truth than some guy born into dirty water?"
"The most important thing in regard to the question of Good and Evil is honesty."
"I might just look you in the eye and say, 'You know what? If you genuinely care about truth about justice about goodness about what's right why aren't you angry with me?'"
"Death and suffering... are not necessarily the answer a lot of the time."
"Who said what's right and wrong? A better question here is why do you need a 'who' to tell you what's right or wrong?"
"Stop and ask yourself: Why is there right and wrong?"
"How can you kill somebody's child? That was somebody's child!"
"His defense seems like they can brush it off like 'Ah, you don't tell the cops everything, come on, it's okay to lie to the cops.'"
"If your proof that people don't have British values is that they wanted to stop a genocide you got to ask what are British values right now."
"Your belief in a God is so strong that you'll forgo your own child's life and just simply believe this is a test... how fucking selfish is that?"
"The moral force of the unbelief of anger and the moral urgency of the unbelief of anxiety mix into a gathering flow of insistent, ethically driven doubts."
"When we're talking about ethics, we're really asking the question: How ought I to act or how should we act?"