moral diversity

moral diversity (countable and uncountable, plural moral diversities)

1. Disparity of moral inclinations (the thing discriminated in moralism).
   • 1970, Donald J. Black, “Production of crime rates”, in American sociological review‎, volume 35, number 4, page 739:

     Moral diversity in the citizen population by itself assures that some discrimination of this kind will occur.

   • 2003, Jonathan Haidt with Evan Rosenberg and Holly Hom, “Differentiating diversities: Moral diversity is not like other kinds”, in Journal of Applied Social Psychology, volume 33, number 1, page 1:

     Three studies of attitudes and desires for interaction among college students confirm that moral diversity reduces desires for interaction more than does demographic diversity, and that both kinds of diversity are valued more in a classroom than in other social settings.

2. Inconsistency of moral quality.
   • 1852, Henry James, “Democracy and Its Issues”, in Lectures and Miscellanies, →ISBN, page 37:

     The moral diversity which A, a technically good man, perceives between himself and B, a technically evil man, does not lead him to doubt the absoluteness of moral distinctions, does not lead him to dread these distinctions as tending to estrange man from his brother, and so to destroy human fellowship.

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