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Such a policy would be
permissible
for some time, but not on a sustained basis.
Britain’s Dangerous Lapse in Medical EthicsLONDON – On July 17, the United Kingdom’s influential Nuffield Council on Bioethics implicitly endorsed “heritable genome editing,” declaring the practice of altering the DNA of a human embryo “morally permissible” under certain circumstances.
But the opposite is true: a reference to God is both constitutionally
permissible
and politically imperative.
According to the plaintiffs, this is not
permissible
under international law.
Cost-benefit analysis – balancing the cost of remedial action against the benefit of avoiding disaster – is no longer
permissible.
Yes, Citi and Bank of America were centrally involved, but the activities that generated major losses were fully
permissible
under Glass-Steagall.
The alternative approach – embodied by the Kyoto Protocol – is to implement quotas limiting individual actors’
permissible
greenhouse-gas emissions.
The number of
permissible
deployed warheads, 1,550, is 74% lower than the limit of the 1991 START Treaty and 30% below the cap set by the 2002 Moscow Treaty.
Even if democracy might be viewed primarily as an evil from an Islamic point of view, there is another principle of interpretation of religious laws in Islam, according to which minor evils – even if religiously impermissible or not recommended at first – become permissible, recommended, and even mandatory if they alone can prevent major evils.
It was only a small step for the British to allow stem cell research as a
permissible
purpose.
Moreover, 85% said suicide bombing is rarely or never justified, and only 1% said violence to defend Islam was “often”
permissible.
For example, both political parties in the US now accept the notion that when a country is in a recession, it is not only permissible, but even desirable , to run deficits.
Likewise, as the US taskforce on impact investing recommended, the authorities should clarify the
permissible
investment activity of tax-exempt foundations.
In 1957, a group of doctors asked Pope Pius XII whether it is
permissible
to use narcotics to suppress pain and consciousness “if one foresees that the use of narcotics will shorten life.”
An action that has two effects, one good and the other bad, may be
permissible
if the good effect is the one that is intended and the bad effect is merely an unwanted consequence of achieving the good effect.
They concluded that it is ethically
permissible
to prepare stem cell lines from frozen embryos, but only from those obtained in the course of in vitro fertilization procedures and deemed by donors and their physician to be in excess of clinical requirements.
So, while the line between the
permissible
and the prohibited has shifted, it still exists.
It is still not
permissible
in polite company to talk about these frontline states acquiring their own nuclear weapons.
“It is permissible,” according to bin Laden’s ally in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi, “to spill infidel blood.”
It is time for China to seriously consider allowing the renminbi to float freely, while reserving the right to intervene when it must, and tighten the management of cross-border capital flows
(permissible
under last November’s G-20 agreements).
They believe not only that it is all right to kill soldiers and bomb munitions depots in times of war, but that inflicting "collateral damage" on non-combatants it is sometimes unavoidable--and morally
permissible.
But if that is permissible, why is it wrong to aim directly at non-combatants if killing them will have a good chance of inducing the enemy to cease hostilities, withdraw from occupied territory, or grant independence?
Over time, however, the concept of what, when, where, and with whom sexual activity is
permissible
has changed – sometimes quite arbitrarily, depending on who is in power.
Allowing the government to decide which opinions are
permissible
is dangerous not just because it smothers debate, but also because governments can be arbitrary or self-serving.
Britain is not the only country where ancient rights of habeas corpus, of the inviolability of the person, are to be restricted by new legislation that, for example, extends the
permissible
length of detention without charge.
This means that it would have been entirely
permissible
for the government to accept the UAE’s help.
If you judged case 1 as permissible, case 2 as obligatory, and case 3 as forbidden, then you are like the 1,500 subjects around the world who responded to these dilemmas on our web-based moral sense test (http://moral.wjh.harvard.edu/).
But there were no statistically significant differences between subjects with or without religious backgrounds, with approximately 90% of subjects saying that it is
permissible
to flip the switch on the boxcar, 97% saying that it is obligatory to rescue the baby, and 97% saying that is forbidden to remove the healthy man’s organs.
When asked to justify why some cases are
permissible
and others forbidden, subjects are either clueless or offer explanations that cannot account for the relevant differences.
This sobering picture calls for new licensing regulations limiting oil-market participation, limits on
permissible
trading positions, and high margin requirements where feasible.
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