And the argument that retributivism justifies punishment better than consequentialism presupposes that punishment is justifiable (for criticism of this premise, see Golash 2005; Boonin 2008), and that there are no alternatives that are better than both (for two alternatives, see Quinn 1985; Tadros 2011).
"But because it's tough, because it's a challenge, it's justifiable for adults.
This type of arrangement might be justifiable for a blow-out price.
"I don't think it's justifiable for any politician to interfere in the election of a president of a sports governing body in that way," Efford said.
But the point was, and is, whether it was justifiable for heavy-handed international politicians to sanction the invasion of a sovereign state.
In June, Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo, Zimb., said that it would be justifiable for Britain to invade the country and remove Pres.
It might be justifiable, for example, to enact a targeted authorization focused on Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the only group currently described by the director of national intelligence as having both the intent and capacity to strike the United States homeland.
But 45% of Indian girls are married before the age of 18, according to the International Centre for Research on Women (2010); 56,000 maternal deaths were recorded in 2010 (UN Population Fund) and research from Unicef in 2012 found that 52% of adolescent girls (and 57% of adolescent boys) think it is justifiable for a man to beat his wife.
The lesson of Osirak is very limited -- that in extreme cases it is justifiable for a country to make a pre-emptive pinpoint strike to prevent an unpredictable enemy from gaining weapons of mass destruction that would be used against it.
Asked if it was justifiable for officers to order Saunders's wife, Elizabeth, to switch off her phone during the siege, he said: "There is the option of leaving it on so that if there were texts arriving, you would see it".
