While ethicists have long been interested in the conflict between these two principles in cases of deception in medical practice, there is comparatively little empirical evidence concerning whether lay people the potential targets of such deception regard deception as morally acceptable across different medical contexts.
"It's clear, based on this event, that between the public's right to know, and the integrity of an investigation, there's two principles in conflict".
We are the three principles in motion.
A military strike would prompt another competition in Germany between the two principles of "Never again war" and "Never again Auschwitz", like the one that took place during the Kosovo war in 1999.
That leaves Germany forced to choose between two bedrock principles in its own social contract: economic stability and EU integration.Amid voter hostility, Austria's deputy chancellor and finance minister, Josef Pröll, said this week that Europe was "almost out of patience" with Greek street protests against austerity.
"What happens if there is a clash between the two principles?" he asked in his Magna Carta lecture of 2006.
The second fundamental comparison in the first part of the original position is between the two principles and the principle of restricted utility, which is identical to Rawls's two principles except that the difference principle is replaced with a principle of average utility to regulate the distribution of wealth and income, constrained by a social minimum.
Two principles are in play here.
