Literary notes about unethical (AI summary)
In literature, the term unethical is used as a flexible moral gauge to critique actions, ideas, and institutions that conflict with widely accepted ethical standards. At times it serves as a sharp indictment of practices or ideologies that are seen as not just objectionable but intrinsically corrupt—for example, denouncing a religious foundation as built on an “unsocial, and cruel” basis ([1]) or critiquing interventions that, however well-intentioned, cross moral boundaries ([2]). In other instances, distinct actions or innovations are classified as unethical to highlight the difference between legality and moral propriety, as seen when ideas are carefully scrutinized for their ethical implications ([3]). Authors also use the term to interrogate the cultural relativity of moral standards, suggesting that what one society deems unethical may be reinterpreted by another ([4], [5]).
- How incongruous to build up the lofty structure of a faith upon so unethical, unsocial, and cruel a foundation!
— from India, Its Life and Thought by John P. (John Peter) Jones - This outing was in the days before “jacking for deer” had become not only illegal but entirely unethical.
— from Days in the Open by Lathan A. (Lathan Augustus) Crandall - Although his idea wasn't unethical, the so far closely kept secret would be out if BEB investigated.
— from The Psilent Partner by Edward S. Staub - We judge some religions as unethical because the mores of which they approve are not our mores, that is, the standards of higher civilization.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Very unethical to leave these three here to die.
— from The Ethical Way by Joseph Farrell
