Sentences with phrase «ethical arguments against»

Holzman said climate change aside, there have been ethical arguments against having children for quite a while.

Animals Australia's representative on the AWAC provided crucial input on the scientific and ethical arguments against confining sows in tiny stalls.

But given the potent ethical arguments against corruption, not to mention the potent legal penalties for being caught engaging in it, it's a problem that needs to be tackled head - on.

There can be no ethical argument against such explicit authorship, Stemwedel of San José State agrees.

There is no compelling legal, moral, or ethical argument against keeping your hormones wherever you want them, and anyone who tries to tell you otherwise does not have your best interests at heart.

Not exact matches

C. S. Lewis» recognition of a fact - value dichotomy within an argument against ethical subjectivism in The Abolition of Man has no doubt contributed something to the frequency with which «values» is used by both Catholics and Protestants who want to defend «traditional values.»

Hasker believes that my doubt about this means that I do not hold the ethical premise in m argument against free will theism to be clearly true.

So these «internal» arguments against free will theism are purely ad hominem, drawing upon ethical views that free will theists are thought to accept but which need not be shared by the process theist making the argument.

Yes, I know the ethical and environmental arguments against eating animals — been there, done that.

When it benefits you and your family, as well as the environment and workers in vulnerable communities, there's no argument against organic cotton and ethical children's clothes.

«It is shameful that Republicans have used this tragedy and the deaths of our fellow Americans for political gain,» Cummings continued, hinting at the ethical argument Democrats will make — with fresh grist — against the majority.

There is also the ethical argument to be made against eating meat, as in Safran - Foer's book «Eating animals».

Lesson that deals with the ethical arguments for and against fertility treatments, in particular, debating the ethics of saviour siblings.

And so if climate change raises civilization challenging ethical questions which imply duties, responsibilities, and obligations what questions should the press ask opponents of climate change policies when they make economic and scientific arguments against climate change policies?

We have examined ethical problems with economic arguments against climate change in other ClimateEthics entries in considerable detail.

Although we can not predict specific impacts of geoengineering with much confidence, we can fruitfully consider the conditions under which geoengineering research would be justified (or not), and ethical theory provides a wealth of resources to sift through the value judgments that arguments for (or against) research inevitably involve.

(See, for example, Ethical Issues Entailed By Economic Arguments Against Climate Change Policies, The original organizations that sought to undermine public support on climate policies by exaggerating scientific uncertainty have expanded to include ideological think tanks, front groups, Astroturf groups (i.e., groups organized by industry that pretend to be a legitimate grassroots organization), and PR firm led campaigns.

With very few exceptions, the US press has utterly failed to cover climate change as an ethical and moral issue while focusing on the scientific and economic arguments against taking action that have been made by opponents of US climate change policies for almost 30 years.

This is followed by questions designed to assure that opponents of climate change policies are required to expressly respond to ethical problems with their most frequent arguments made against climate change policies.

We are interested in hearing from those who use these questions to expose the ethical problems with cost arguments made against climate change policies.

One set of ethical arguments is put against another.

Some environmental NGOs usually fail to spot the ethical problems with arguments made against climate change policies based upon the cost or reducing ghg emissions to the emitters.

Ethical Problems With Cost Arguments Against Climate Change Policies: The Failure To Recognize Duties To Non-citizens

Five Common Arguments Against Climate Change Policies That Can Only Be Effectively Responded To On Ethical Grounds

For all of these reasons, arguments against taking action to reduce the threat of climate change based upon scientific uncertainty fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny.

It is also practically important because the first four IPCC reports, although not completely ignoring all ethical and justice problems with economic arguments about climate change policies, failed to examine the vast majority of ethical problems with economic arguments against climate change policies while making economic analyses of climate change policies the primary focus of Working Group III's work thereby leaving the strong impression that economic analyses, including but not limited to cost - benefit analyses, is the preferred way to evaluate the sufficiency of proposed climate change policies.

This topic is enormously practically important because nations and others who argue against proposed climate change policies usually rely on various economic arguments which often completely ignore the ethical and justice limitations of these arguments (In the case of the United States, see Brown, 2012.)

Ethical Problems With Cost Arguments Against Climate Change Policies: Increased Costs May Not Justify Human Rights Violations

What distinguishes ethical issues from economic and scientific arguments about climate change is that ethics is about duties, obligations, and responsibilities to others while economic and scientific arguments are usually understood to be about «value - neutral» «facts» which once established have usually been deployed in arguments against action on climate change based upon self - interest.

Ethical issues that arise when arguments are made against action on the basis of scientific uncertainty or cost to national economies?

# 1 - many of the arguments derived from the language in certain ethical rules could just as easily be leveled against judges who have clerks write their judicial opinions and senior partners who have junior associates write their briefs or law journal articles.

After a few minutes, it appeared to me that he opposed the very idea of Alberta on principle and wasn't at all interested in hearing my argument (based on Ezra Levant's book Ethical Oil) that I'd rather buy my oil from Alberta than from undemocratic regimes like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, or Nigeria; regimes that either brutalize women, exploit the local population, decapitate those convicted of «crimes,» stone adulterers, discriminate against minorities, have no environmental standards whatsoever, or try to govern their citizens as if it's the 8th century and not the 21st.