Sentence examples for be permissible to harm from inspiring English sources
The footage is intended to force Deza to reconsider his own assumptions about what is and is not morally permissible – would it not be permissible to harm these people?
According to the principle of double effect, sometimes it is permissible to cause a harm as a side effect (or "double effect") of bringing about a good result even though it would not be permissible to cause such a harm as a means to bringing about the same good end.
More generally, if the actions of groups of individuals only together constitute a significant risk of serious harm, it may still be permissible to restrict the actions of each individual.
It's permissible to have faith, and it must be permissible to hope for a salvation for this world.
The question is not whether it is permissible to risk harming some individuals in order to make other individuals slightly better off.
34, 35 Harm aversion appears to shape judgments in moral dilemmas, in which people must judge whether it is morally permissible to harm one person in order to save many others.
For this is a case in which it is permissible to restrict liberty, not to prevent harm to others, but to prevent a special kind of harm to self.
However, since we are discussing patients for whom it is permissible to withdraw life-support, we assume that death is not necessarily a harm for them.
