Principle
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In principle, the outlines of a deal are not difficult to formulate.
Aside from costing billions of taxpayer dollars, Paulson’s plan violates the fundamental capitalist
principle
that whoever reaps the gains also bears the losses.
This was the guiding
principle
behind past enlargements to include democracies that were, at the time of their admission, new and fragile: first Greece, then Spain and Portugal.
In principle, this can be accomplished elsewhere.
This is why a key Confucian
principle
holds that one cannot rule the state without exercising discipline over oneself.
There is, however, one fiscal
principle
that must be respected.
Unlike markets, which reward the wealthy and successful, social democracy is premised on the
principle
of civic equality.
“Do no harm” is as good a
principle
here as it is in medicine.
Economy, Insure ThyselfNEW HAVEN – The basic
principle
of financial risk management is sharing.
But competition is one
principle
that ought to command broad political support, because of the benefits that it tends to deliver for ordinary people.
In Russia, an investor has in
principle
the full protection of a private property-rights regime enforced by an independent judiciary.
And, as the world waits for scientific certainty (which may never arrive), there is an existing solution that can guide us into the unknown: the “precautionary principle.”
Adopted globally in 1992 as part of the United Nations Rio Convention on sustainable development, and later incorporated into one of the European Union’s founding treaties, the precautionary
principle
states that a lack of certainty cannot be a basis for failing to protect human health or the environment.
The precautionary
principle
is not without its detractors.
For starters, applying the precautionary
principle
to the context of AI would help rebalance the global policy discussion, giving weaker voices more influence in debates that are currently monopolized by corporate interests.
Moreover, by applying the precautionary principle, governance bodies could shift the burden of responsibility to the creators of algorithms.
And, by forcing tech companies and governments to identify and consider multiple options, the precautionary
principle
would bring to the fore neglected issues, like environmental impact.
The beauty of the precautionary
principle
lies not only in its grounding in international public law, but also in its track record as a framework for managing innovation in myriad scientific contexts.
Heisenberg's famous uncertainty
principle
implies that the act of observation may interfere with the behavior of quantum particles; but it is the observation that creates the effect, not the uncertainty
principle
itself.
In any case, there is something wrong with making the survival of the fittest a guiding
principle
of civilized society.
The
principle
that guides the evolution of species is mutation, and mutation works in a much more sophisticated way.
But, guided by the
principle
of the survival of the fittest, states are increasingly preoccupied with their competitiveness and unwilling to make any sacrifices for the common good.
At last year’s summit, Trump refused to affirm the
principle
of collective defense under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty – the keystone of the transatlantic alliance.
The British Joint Stock Companies Act of 1856, for example, established the
principle
of limited liability for corporations.
Governments must shift their priorities to stop the smugglers while assisting the migrants – a
principle
enshrined in the UN Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants, which has been ratified by 138 countries and forms the basis of international action in this area.
For Heraclitus, change was the fundamental
principle
of life.
The Bonn process established the
principle
of democratic accountability, gave Afghanistan its first directly elected president, and provided a new constitution that – approved after genuine debate and compromise – created a legitimate central government.
As in Brown v. Board of Education , the case that ultimately broke the back of racial segregation in America half a century ago, the European Court is being asked to give meaning to the fundamental
principle
of equality.
There are valid criticisms of such schemes, including, as in Chile, that the vouchers may be too small to purchase a quality education; but, at least in principle, vouchers and other forms of financial aid can make a private education, if desired, accessible to all.
This
principle
of so-called Pareto optimality underlies all moral claims for free-market economics.
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