Essays Tagged: "repugnant"

... are being shared by. The Stanford Encyclopedia provides an argument against the Repugnant Conclusion under the following terms: the good of food and education outweighs.... This conclusion uses the same reasoning as the theory that blocks the repugnant conclusion does, yet it shows that the theory’s conditions are false... not being deprived of food, but that is it. According to the Repugnant Conclusion, the factor that distinguishes figure z, as better than figure a...

..., contempt, and exoneration from any moral consequence. This fact of life is repugnant to the religious man who claims a clairvoyant relationship to God. He... to give my intellectual assent blindly, I will not. The idea is repugnant to me. But once I have given that assent, once I have...

...-factness communicates to readers that they find nothing wrong in using these repugnant terms, betraying their belief that it is perfectly acceptable to speak slightingly...

..., Westerners with the aim of stopping a practice they see as morally repugnant, have failed in their attempts because they did not take into consideration...

... constitutionally unprotected, it also criminalizes a substantial amount of expression that- however repugnant- is shielded by the First Admendment... Our fighting words cases have made... the criminal was Mormon, and the majority found those religious views morally repugnant? Could Rehnquist also justify suppressing the religious freedoms found in the First... enhancement did not cover something, such as racism, that he finds personally repugnant. The recent attempt at "political correctness" differs only slightly from the Red...

... an almost immediate and overwhelming opposition to cloning humans (The Wisdom of Repugnance). President Clinton banned all federal support of human cloning research, although there..., The. Cass, Leon R. AEI Press. Washington, DC. 1998 "The Wisdom of Repugnance." The New World Republic. June 2, 1997. "Human Cloning." Issues and Controversies... to shudder, or think, "Something isn't right here" (The Wisdom of Repugnance). We feel this way about human cloning for a reason - because it...

... this is hardly an idyllic ending. Anse is one of the most repugnant of Faulkner's characters, primped and ridiculous with his new teeth and... this is hardly an idyllic ending. Anse is one of the most repugnant of Faulkner's characters, primped and ridiculous with his new teeth and...

..., contract a guilt, which renders it indispensible. But this horrid supposition is repugnant to the whole genius of revelation, which inculcates every virtue that can..., both one and the other are equally natural; if we consider the repugnance of our nature, it operates equally on both sides; if we attend...

... our statesmen and the instinct of our people have hitherto rejected as repugnant to their highest interests. It is true that circumstances alter cases, that... is congenial to the former types of government, while it is thoroughly repugnant to the latter. A science of education applied to backward peoples, a...

..., Jack's overpowered Ralph. The last reason of Ralph and Jack's repugnance is that they have different priorities. In the novel chapter five, Ralph... the boys what they want. To sum up, Ralph and Jack's repugnance and antagonism caused their conflicts and the struggle for power. Ralph wants...

... didn't know him. Pip later sees Provis differently:         For now my repugnance to him had all melted away, and in the hunted wounded shackled... which I held the man, the dread I had of him, the repugnance with which I shrank from him could not have been exceeded if...

... sovereign cannot be put to death (6) The right to censor doctrines repugnant to peace (7) Legislative power of prescribing rules (8) Judicial power of... the death of royal heads of state. The right to censor doctrines repugnant to peace is also essential to a sovereign. It is required for...

... power within the Marriott Corporation beyond the reservation center becomes ostentatious and repugnant. Within the reservation center, a general manager oversees all department heads who...

... (FSC) in 1980, to review all laws to ensure that none was repugnant to the Koran or the Sunnah .... and to hear appeals in certain...

... constantly criticizing the wording of the Declaration of Rights ("How childish, how repugnant to the ends of the language, is this perversion of language!"(9...

... narrator, Nick Carraway. Moving from initial interest to romantic allure to moral repugnance, Nick's relationship with Jordan Baker traces a painfully familiar, all-to... attraction can't last and is, by summer's end, replaced by repugnance. The smallest of details, at first, heralds this falling-apart: 'Jordan's...

... latter." The Supreme Court has indicated that the test applied for determining repugnance under Article 254 of the Constitution, may be applied for solving a... when the provisions of the later acts are so inconsistent with or repugnant to the provisions of the earlier acts " that the two cannot stand...

.... The Statute of Westminster gave the Australian Parliament power to make laws repugnant to the United Kingdom and it prevented the British Parliament from overriding... powers were not exercised. The states were also still bound by the repugnancy laws still in power from the Colonial laws validly act. This meant...

... into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should... exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists...

... to bear a child, where will government stop? The concept is morally repugnant. It violates traditional American ideas of individual rights and freedoms. 7. Outlaw...