guiltlessness


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Synonyms for guiltlessness

a state of innocence

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Suffice to say that peace without justice is a silly state of things that only serves to perpetuate the status quo by sugarcoating the colonization and occupation with a false rose-tainted aura of blamelessness and guiltlessness that does not rectify or deconstruct the damages inflicted by a fascist ethnocentric state that absolutely has no right to exist.
This judicial system can bring about disadvantages for the accused inasmuch the judge plays the major role in pressing the charge upon the accused person and can nullify and invalidate the presumption of innocence or the guiltlessness statement of the accused person and declare him as a convict.
The reasons include "strategic self-presentation" (64) (not wanting to create a false impression of guilt through lack of cooperation), a "naive faith in the power of their own innocence to set them free," (65) and the "illusion of transparency," (66) a psychological "tendency to overestimate the extent to which others can read one's internal states" such as honesty and guiltlessness. (67) Furthermore, if arrested and taken into custody during an investigation, innocent suspects are often more likely than guilty ones to waive Miranda rights and answer questions in an interrogation room.
Speaking at a news conference in the presence of Future MPs and politicians, Siniora stressed that the FPM's book entitled "Impossible Guiltlessness" has deliberately distorted facts in an attempt to show that the previous Cabinets were deeply involved in corruption and embezzlement.
Odysseus has the official version on his side and is granted the platform to proclaim his greatness and guiltlessness but Penelope and the maids are not given any political stance.
Psychopaths generally have fearless social dominance, are self-centered impulsivity, have superficial charm, guiltlessness, callousness, dishonesty and immunity to anxiety.
In the dock, they waged demarcation disputes over who did what, but they never simulated either lunacy or guiltlessness. A few years beforehand, the scaffold would have awaited them, but in 1965 Harold Wilson's government jettisoned capital punishment.
Virtuous implies moral excellence in character and conduct; righteous stresses guiltlessness or blamelessness and often suggests sanctimonious; and noble implies moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean, or dubious in conduct and character (moral, 2011).
If the narrative of post-apartheid South Africa requires the end of oppression, the narrative of colonialism requires the guiltlessness of the oppressed.
Individual guiltlessness within a blameworthy system blurs the line between charity and justice.
Adrienne is adamant about her guiltlessness: she later tells Lily, "We were raped.
In exploring this strange phenomenon of guiltlessness about the grossly immoral crimes of Ender's Game, Kessel has convincingly demonstrated the morality of Ender's Game to be effectively an "intention-based morality," as Orson Scott Card is at great pains to present his child-hero, Andrew Wiggin, as innocent and sympathetic despite his killings of other children and his act of alien genocide (81).