Sentences with phrase «prohibition against harming»

Sadly, the Canadian Supreme Court and Parliament made assisted suicide into a «right,» and in so doing imposed the moral philosophy of liberalism — free choice limited only by the prohibition against harming others — on everyone.

As of October 2017, there were more than 2,000 registered activities exempted from ESA prohibitions against harm to species at risk and their habitat, for which no information has been publicly released.

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The most glaring ethical violation concerns the prohibition against doing harm.

-- Law societies: Instigate proceedings for the unauthorized practice of law only in cases where harm is alleged by a client of a non-lawyer provider, and drop the prohibition against lawyers sharing fees with non-lawyers.

When this kind of thing gets tested against the United Nations human rights system (specifically the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights» prohibition of arbitrary detention) then it is justified by reference to preventing harm to potential future victims.