Thursday, January 21, 2016

morality, mortality

Morality or morality means adherence to the rules of right conduct or right and wrong--
Children learn morality by watching what we do, not by what we say.
Morality is as simple as deciding to be someone you can live with.

Mortality or mortality means the state of being subject to death, of being alive and having an end at some time to life--
He's in therapy; he says he's having trouble with the idea of his own mortality. 

Mortality more commonly means the rate of death, especially from a  particular disease or disaster--
The mortality from car accidents is even worse than it was years ago, or so it seems.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"It's not merely a question of morality; the mortality rate among users of this product is outrageous."

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