Meanings of moral equivalence in English

There was no moral equivalence between racists and those fighting such inequality, he said.

This moral equivalence really takes the biscuit.

To make a moral equivalence between the Revolution's year II and September 2001 is historical and philosophical nonsense.

Those brought up on John Le Carré might perhaps expect from this moral equivalence, shabby compromise and exhausted futility.

Sir, -Tom Cooper (November 10th) proposes a moral equivalence between the poppy and the Easter lily.

Former Conservative Cabinet minister Baroness Young told the House: There is not a moral equivalence between heterosexual and homosexual relationships.

It annoys me, as well, that it passes for progressive, these days, to see a moral equivalence between Wall Street and Benefits Street.

Earlier this week Donald Trump was railing at the media on Twitter for calling him out about his moral equivalence on race hate.

Amnesia is not an option when it comes to Ireland dealing with the past, nor is moral equivalence, President Michael D Higgins has said.

Please do not think I am suggesting any moral equivalence or trivialising but this is the final danger: doctors do not always get it right.

It served merely to emphasise his tin ear and imply moral equivalence between neo-Nazi demonstrators and those who took to the streets to oppose them.

Donald Trump was wrong to imply a moral equivalence between the white supremacists and those who gathered to oppose them in Charlottesville, Virginia.(...)