When physicians justifiably withdraw or withhold life-support treatment, they allow patients to die but do not cause, intend, or bear moral responsibility for the patient's death.
Reducing the complexity of such issues is certainly not the solution either: Historically, attempts to simplify social causes end up excluding significant portions of the population the cause is intended to benefit.
The new law, which would allow employers to fire people under age 26 during a trial period without cause, was intended to encourage companies to hire young people.
So rather than see the South as a lost cause (pun intended), the Democratic Party and liberals north and west of us should put a lid on their regional biases and encourage the change that is possible here.
Sadly, the current trend toward dismantling teacher rights is ultimately going to cause unintended (intended by some who wish to disassemble public education) consequences.
Two novel devices have been presented, and results from short term pre-clinical tests provide preliminary evidence for their ability to cause the intended biomechanical mode of action in gait for a normal subject.
Alefecept did not add a survival benefit to the optimized belatacept and sirolimus regimen, despite causing an intended depletion of memory T cells, and caused a marked reduction in regulatory T cells.
The behavior was caused, not intended.
Website defacement should be a separate crime, with penalties that are more carefully tied to the actual damage that the acts have caused, or were intended to cause.
Explicitly following the printed instructions could, for example, cause voters intending to cast their ballot for governor for Mr. Paladino on the Taxpayers Party line to vote for Howie Hawkins on the Green Party line.
