moral necessity

基本解释

What we did was a moral necessity.
我们做了在道义上非做不可的事。
"We feel that there is a certain moral necessity to make known the terrible facts, " a missionary, Miner Searle Bates, wrote.
“我们觉得应该让人们知道这个悲惨的事实，这绝对是道义上的需要”一位委员会的成员Miner Searle Bates这样写道。
And for the United States, this is a matter of moral and pragmatic necessity.
对于美国而言，这个问题具有道德和实际的必要性。

If they acted with a kind of mechanical necessity or even geometric necessity, they could not possibly be moral laws in that way.
如果这些法则有机械上,或者几何上的必须性的话，它们就不能被称作道德法则。
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In other words, as the judge said, what's always moral isn't necessarily against the law and while I don't think that necessity justifies theft or murder or any illegal act, at some point your degree of necessity does, in fact, exonerate you from any guilt.
换言之，正如法官常说的，情有可原，未必不可法外容情,当然我不认为，一句情有可原,就能为盗窃，谋杀以及其他违法行为正名，但有时，情有可原的程度,确实可能法外容情，赦免你的罪行。
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Secretary Rumsfeld has indicated that the President perceives this as a "moral" obligation, as well as a strategic necessity.
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Such calculations are far from sinister, but are an absolute necessity of continued existence and, as such, perfectly moral.
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