amoral

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There will always be a law that seems amoral, there will always be a politician you don't like (sometimes that politician even holds the presidency), and there will always, and I mean always, be social problems that need to be worked out.

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  1. adjective Not admitting of moral distinctions or judgments; neither moral nor immoral.
  2. adjective Lacking moral sensibility; not caring about right and wrong.

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  • Sartorius is utterly amoral, and it is this chilling inhumane viewpoint that most represents the changes overtaking the world. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 03 - September 1995
  • Some listeners and music critics defend music as "amoral," that is, morally neutral. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Would taking your life be an amoral, meaningless choice? —  Atheist Ethicist
  • New Labour a huge "gold standard cock-up", amoral, corrupt and evil to the core. —  The Lone Voice
  • Some goober named David Lebedoff has an article in the Strib that claims that the whole source of the problem is all those amoral, atheistic people who don't believe in an afterlife. —  Pharyngula
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