What was abnormal is that they had lost their moral inhibitions in the crowd mentality that was sanctioning looting and stealing.
I override my primary moral inhibitions and switch off the governor subroutine responsible for suppressing the automatic triggers for Antipersonnel Battery 32.
Likewise, the Church of the Nazarene recommends against "All forms of dancing that detract from spiritual growth and break down proper moral inhibitions and reserve."
The healthy individual has no compulsive morality because he has no impulses which call for moral inhibition.
Disinhibition: socio-cultural and situational pressures may cause torturers to undergo a lessening of moral inhibitions and as a result act in ways not normally countenanced by law, custom and conscience.
Randy Cohen (The Ethicist, March 14) suggests that a plagiarist, "with her low level of moral inhibition and high level of chutzpah, should flourish in modern America."
He is fretting over the question of whether certain great men (Napoleon, Raskolnikov himself) ought to be free from moral inhibitions.
In order to move from that to an actual sexual liberation, we must change our mental structures and our moral inhibitions.
Hulls have all the skills of Bards, but none of the moral inhibitions.
A young woman with her low level of moral inhibition and high level of chutzpah should flourish in modern America.