Sentences with phrase «ethical person without»

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The ethical problems are obvious: You're changing the terms of discourse without the other person agreeing to do that.

It is possible to have an ethical life without resorting to invisible sky people and to make law without having to invoke some guy living in the earths core as somehow making people behave badly.

Humans are capable of forming ethical, well - reasoned decisions without needing to perpetuate such incoherent, closed - minded fantasy... I swear, christians are among the most frightened, baby - brained people on the planet!

Many people are inclined to agree that the distinction between passive and active euthanasia is an ethical fiction: why let an anencephalic infant, born without a brain, starve to death, prolonging the parents» agony, when the baby could be painlessly killed?

A black theologian can not enter into the quest for personhood and peoplehood of his or her people without having his or her ethical concern sharpened.

As for Pastor Mike and his atheist registry, like so many other strongly religious people I've encountered, he's equating religion with morality, as if, without religious belief (the right religious belief), you are incapable of possessing and living by a moral / ethical code.

Furthermore, it has insisted — and rightly — that Christianity is a faith and not a philosophical or ethical system; it is a faith in which affirmations are made about an historical person in whom God is believed to be specially at work; it has insisted that we have to do with a tradition which has been nourished by the lives of holy men and women, by saints and scholars, but which is based upon the gospel, whose grounding is in the scriptural record and witness and which therefore can not exist without constant reference to that «deposit» of God's self - revelation.

«Most people have a route or two routes and they become like an extension of the body and use those routes not for ethical reasons but because it is the only way to get around London without being late for meetings...»

But furthermore — and this is perhaps Darwin's greatest contribution — he developed a set of new principles that influence the thinking of every person: the living world, through evolution, can be explained without recourse to supernaturalism; essentialism or typology is invalid, and we must adopt population thinking, in which all individuals are unique (vital for education and the refutation of racism); natural selection, applied to social groups, is indeed sufficient to account for the origin and maintenance of altruistic ethical systems; cosmic teleology, an intrinsic process leading life automatically to ever greater perfection, is fallacious, with all seemingly teleological phenomena explicable by purely material processes; and determinism is thus repudiated, which places our fate squarely in our own evolved hands.

Like Mr. Baker's earlier features «Starlet» and «Tangerine,» this movie insists on meeting people on both sides of the screen where they are, on suspending judgment and extending compassion without abandoning its ethical grounding.

It's my experience that as long as a company operates within the law, intelligent people can debate its ethical stature from now until dividend day without reaching a conclusion.

Artists without ethical principles and something meaningful to share with humanity are not real artists they are just provokers who earn their fame by making people experience intense visceral emotions.

Almost all the world's religions, basic human rights theories, and numerous other ethical arguments hold that no person has a right to greatly harm someone else without their consent.

«We designers use to anesthetize ourselves with aesthetics without ethical content and forget that our goal is to solve people's problems.

But just because a senior person merely reviewed and edited an opinion, brief or blog post - instead of actually researching and writing it - it doesn't translate that he or she has commited an ethical violation (of course, plagiarism - the culpable act of passing off someone else's content as one's own without the permission of the author - is an entirely different matter that is deserving of censure and liability).

But regardless of what profession a person chooses to pursue, I argue that one should be able to seek advice from a spouse when facing an ethical dilemma, without being reprimanded.

We let people buy crappy cars, exploding laptops, and lead - filled toys on an open market — why not cheap lawyers without ethical handcuffs?

Answering questions with correct answers (by memorizing them without actually learning and embedding them) does not a moral / ethical person make, just as answering questions correctly in a driving school classroom does not a good, safe, defensive driver make.