Sentences with phrase «moral issues raised»

Furthermore, such considerations highlight the fact that the deep moral issues raised by autonomous weapons are the very same ones raised by conventional warfare.

(«There would have to be a paper on the moral issues raised by chocolate; the more she thought of it, the richer became the philosophical dimensions of chocolate.»)

«2 What he has in mind is not the ongoing and largely unconscious operation of the inherent ethos of a congregation but its conscious attention to moral issues raised for the purpose of making a Christian decision about them.

The moral issues raised by all of this were grave, and the risks to the common good of the human community enormous.

They will not solve the moral issue raised by the TFWP.

Not exact matches

And it raises a number of compelling issues for those who care about the moral use of deadly force.

Instead, they have tried to avoid the moral issue and win with pragmatic arguments, like what women need, the economics of raising a child, etc..

Most contraceptive methods of regulating fertility do not raise the same moral issue as abortion because they do not permit the joining of the sperm and the egg.

Weigel highlights the huge importance of the issues raised by Benedict at Westminster: «What are the moral foundations of democracy, and of the democratic commitment to civility, tolerance, and the rule of law?

I am disappointed and surprised that some readers chose to avoid the issues I raised, and thereby gave testimony to my argument about a growing moral obtuseness in our midst.

Meanwhile what really separates the two sides is the «moral» issues, especially abortion, that have been raised by politicized religious conservatives.

The first business of the church in society, he said, is «to raise and answer religious questions within the framework of which... the moral issues must be solved.

The use of punishment as a deterrent, and the effect of the penal system upon persons and society as a whole, raise issues for moral judgment.

Economics thus raise very serious moral issues which the Christian faith must address.

He distinguishes between moral and ethical issues that arise within the context of the media and those that are raised by the nature of the system itself.

And while several issues collided here, maybe the most significant question raised is this: Should we be looking for the «most Christian» — or most moral — candidate they can find?

For the situation it deals with still confronts us, and so do the moral and spiritual issues it raises.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

De Blasio has made a moral argument that the issues he was raising money for — universal pre-K and affordable housing — justify the fundraising.

Driverless cars indeed raise moral and ethical issues.

Therefore, this raises a crucial issue — the moral free riders who evade the cost associated with moral judgment (e.g. by not paying taxes for police and court) are better off than those who shoulder the cost.

Many science educators are working hard to increase pupils» awareness of the moral and ethical issues raised by science and technology.

The important issues raised by the film - centered on the cultural, racial and moral struggle that took place on the American frontier - are glossed over in favor of a juvenile fantasy of male bonding around the campfire.

Even when it turns turbulent, the film sustains its warm summer glow, and makes itself a conversation piece about the moral issues it means to raise.

Instead, the unreal elements of the game come from Harry's own experiences, lending it several shades of Silent Hill 2, while simultaneously raising issues of identity, moral ambiguity, and sexuality (some of which is dictated by your actions in - game - the game psychologically profiles you and changes accordingly, to some extent).

It raises compelling moral issues about aggression, genocide and mercy in the context of what appears, at first, to be just another humans - vs - aliens story.

Centered on moral dilemmas regarding racism and how to both study and teach sensitivity to the issue, the conversation — while lively and intellectually challenging — seemed, like many debates on morality, only to result in even more possible responses to some of the complexities Minow raised.

In principle, the idea is splendid: it makes perfect sense to select stories that not only help students develop reading skills (and an appreciation for good writing) but also raise moral issues.

At the time this was a revelatory experience; I'd not run into a game before that was capable of raising moral issues just through its rules.

«Hoping for a catastrophe» to motivate people is naive, not to mention raising all sorts of moral issues.

This question is designed to expose the fact that because delays in ghg emissions based on costs to the polluter makes the enormous threat of climate change much more difficult to solve and more likely that serious harms and damages will be experienced, therefore arguments for delays in reducing ghg emissions based upon cost raise moral and ethical issues because the delays are making the problem much worse, more difficult to solve, and great harms inevitable.

Our research investigates how moral language helps raise environmental issues on the national agenda because it effectively motivates people on both sides.

Although there is growing acceptance that the issues issue being debated in Copenhagen must be understood as raising profound moral and ethical issues, it is clear that some parties continue to base their decisions on national economic interest.

Yet, the US response to climate change has often failed to take seriously the implications of the claim that climate change raises moral issues.

His presence at the dinner is likely to raise eyebrows in the Vatican following Pope Francis» declaration in 2015 that the science is «clear» and climate change is a «moral issue that must be addressed in order to protect the Earth».

I am not a Catholic — not even a Christian and don't agree with everything he said, but the fact that the Pope issued it has forcefully raised for all to see that whatever else it may be, climate disruption is emphatically a moral issue, intimately entwined with a number of other moral issues, the more so because it is human induced.

The manufacture of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) is a threshold that raises ethical, legal, moral and technical issues in relation to international humanitarian and international human rights law.

UNIDIR held a side event on Tuesday, 22 October that featured a presentation by Professor Christof Heyns, who in his capacity as UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, issued a report earlier this year on fully autonomous weapons that raised moral, ethical, legal, policy, technical, and other concerns with the weapons.