Sentences with phrase «producing good consequences»

Both Plato and Aristotle insisted that injustice was not permitted as a means of producing good consequences.

Perhaps, it could be determined that helping one's own and helping those closest to us produce the best consequences in the long run.

We don't help one's own because it produces the best consequences.

Such process theists are not just claiming that coercion does in fact produce good consequences.

Not exact matches

Still, the case against teleological ethics may here offer this response: Granting the difference between direct and indirect applications, this yields only the familiar distinction between «act - teleology» and «rule - teleology, «3 is problematic for the following reason: Social practices or patterns of social cooperation can not be validated teleologically without a comparative assessment of the good and evil consequences differing possible systems of rules or norms (for instance, differing sets of rights) are likely, if adopted, to produce.

In human terms, this has a disastrous consequence for certain groups of people like the tribals, scheduled castes, traditional fishermen and such other groups who depend on them to eke out a living... They would also be torn away from their natural roots as well as from their community and cultural ties - producing in them a sense of isolation» (Quoted from ISA Journal Dec. 94).

It is ultimately dependent upon an analysis of the self as some sort of self - enclosed independently existing entity and produces precisely the difficulty for ethics that has been erroneously attributed to Whitehead, namely that his ethics would be a private - interest theory, at best.1 But Whitehead clearly repudiates the contributing analysis of the self, which would be «no more original than a stone» (PR 159), and repudiates its consequences for ethics: «The doctrine of minds, as independent substances, leads directly not merely to private worlds of experience, but also to private worlds of morals.

Turns out, issues nursing your children don't just stem from an inability to produce or producing too little — producing too much milk can have consequences as well.

Children of divorce are more likely to divorce themselves, and divorce produces other negative consequences as well — more juvenile delinquency, aggression, teen pregnancy, depression, learning difficulties — not the least of which is the loss of childhood and parents and children losing precious time together.

Ed Miliband had a bit of a dig when he suggested pro-European Michael Heseltine produce one of his now rather well - known reports on the consequences of leaving the EU.

Although such alterations help us survive, their unintended evolutionary consequences often produce harmful results that threaten our well - being

Those models do suggest that failure to stem industrial exhaust will push global temperatures four degrees Fahrenheit above today's readings — well beyond a threshold many scientists fear will produce dreadful consequences.

Although ethylene (or ethene) is best known as a plant hormone, humans also produce it as consequence of oxidative stress, caused for example by the UV radiation from the sun.

Good Expectations, Negative Beliefs, and Their Health Consequences The placebo effect is a phenomenon that occurs when a substance without known medical properties produces a beneficial result in subjects due to their positive expectations of its efficacy.

One good example of resources that could be used is the Cow project, produced by Gwent Police, which featured a hard ‑ hitting video of a young girl, nicknamed Cow, and the consequences of texting while driving, along with a teacher pack.

Without such an assessment, it is quite possible to produce unintended and undesirable consequences for the remaining species and cause more harm than good.

It is prudent to expect that over the course of a decade some climate events — including single events, conjunctions of events occurring simultaneously or in sequence in particular locations, and events affecting globally integrated systems that provide for human well - being — will produce consequences that exceed the capacity of the affected societies or global systems to manage and that have global security implications serious enough to compel international response.

But it does suggest that if both sides of the debate paid close attention to the social consequences of policies, rather than the present intractable debate on the reality of AGW, then we might get to a point where we can agree on some action — you might think it is pointless with regard to the climate (but a substantial proportion of people think it will), but if it produces some other good outcomes it might be ok.

But it does suggest that if both sides of the debate paid close attention to the social consequences of policies, rather than the present intractable debate on the reality of AGW, then we might get to a point where we can agree on some action — you might think it is pointless with regard to the climate (but a substantial proportion of people think it will), but if it produces some other good outcomes it might be OK.

In fact, if humankind was really as dumb as the fans of DPS would have us believe, we wouldn't be around today to hear their doomsaying, because Homo sapiens would have been wiped out during vastly larger environmental swings (in and out of ice ages, for example) in our past, than those expected as a consequence of the burning of fossil fuels to produce the energy that powers our world — a world in which the human life expectancy, perhaps the best measure of our level of «dumbness» or «smartness» — has more than doubled over the last century and continues to grow ever longer.

As it is, a wide array of competing industry standards are being developed, the experts lament, which might well undermine the whole enterprise: «Although the consequences are difficult to predict,» the authors write, «the confusion produced by a host of independent «standards» operating in a regulatory vacuum has the potential to discredit market - based environmental policies.»

It was that the public perception of scientists, who may be good scientists and produce good science but then engage in trying to destroy the opposition or to inflate the dire consequences of not acting on climate change.

Without consumer support for sustainable palm oil, including paying the slight premium that it fetches, the whole thing could come crumbling down, with potentially devastating consequences for the biodiversity of Borneo (where the majority of palm oil is produced) and the orangutan in particular, as well as climate change due to increasing carbon emissions when carbon - storing rainforest is turned into oil palm plantation.

In this situation, as in any case in which one tries to determine the best definition to apply under the law, the best approach is to look for a definition that produces just results given the consequences of a particular definition v. another particular definition.

Is the decade of experience that Apple has in producing iPhone models, that have sold remarkably well, of no consequence?

Pediatricians should be vocal advocates for the development and implementation of new, evidence - based interventions (regardless of the provider or venue) that reduce sources of toxic stress and / or mitigate their adverse effects on young children, as they are likely to produce better outcomes and potentially be more cost - effective than trying to treat or remediate the numerous consequences of excessive childhood stress that reach far into adulthood.

As the Government well appreciates, native title is an area of law where the drafting can produce far reaching and unintended consequences.

These changes are important because both stressors and depression can sensitize the inflammatory response in such a way that they produce heightened responsiveness to stressful events as well as antigen challenge.25, 27,28,60 Furthermore, more frequent or persistent stress - related changes in plasma levels of these key cytokines have broad implications for health; elevated levels of proinflammatory cytokines have been linked to a variety of age - related disease, including cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, type 2 diabetes mellitus, certain cancers, and frailty and functional decline.29 Moreover, inflammatory activation can enhance development of depressive symptoms.30, 31 Thus, relationships characterized by hostility, repeated conflicts, and heightened IL - 6 levels could have negative consequences for both physical and mental health.