moralność Kalego

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moralność Kalego

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Literally, “Kali's morality”. From Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel In Desert and Wilderness, in which one of the characters, named Kali, presents his way of perceiving actions as moral or immoral, giving the example of stealing a cow: “If somebody takes Kali's cow , it's a bad deed . If Kali takes somebody's cow, it's a good deed.”

• IPA^(key): /mɔˈral.nɔɕt͡ɕ kaˈlɛ.ɡɔ/
• Syllabification: mo‧ral‧ność Ka‧le‧go

moralność Kalego f

1. (derogatory, idiomatic, literary) double standard (way of judging the same behavior as good when the speaker does it but as bad when the perpetrator is someone else)
   • 2024 January 20, Mateusz Pławski, “Ukraiński portal: ochrona polskiego rolnictwa przed zalewem ukraińskiego zboża to „moralność Kalego””, in kresy.pl‎, archived from the original on 24 January 2024:

     Ukraiński portal Europejska Prawda twierdzi, że ochrona polskiego rolnictwa to przykład „moralności Kalego”.

     The Ukrainian website European Pravda claims that protecting Polish agriculture is an example of “Kali's morality.”

• moralność Kalego in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• moralność Kalego in Polish dictionaries at PWN