The idea that women have free choice about how to give birth is an illusion when one course of action becomes validated as morally correct.
But when a brain injury renders someone unable to respond to questions, the right course of action becomes murkier.
This course of action became inevitable this week when our Police Commissioner and our British Governor, Sir Richard Gozney, revealed there was no security review of the Uighurs.
Since in political discourse there is always disagreement about the possible courses of action, the identity of the "we" that is going to be created through a specific form of action becomes a central question.
Michelle is now restating the obvious: the president can't change anything unless and until we the people take responsibility for the way things are, commit ourselves to some course of action, and become involved in whatever ways are available to us.
A secondary outcome was level of agreement with the statement, "I would be prepared to prescribe a fatal drug to a terminally ill patient who was suffering unbearably, were that course of action to become legal in the future".
The Bundesbank declined to comment Friday on a report in Bild, a German newspaper, that Mr. Weidmann had even threatened to resign in protest over the bond buying, a course of action that has become something of a tradition among disgruntled German central bankers.
Imagine the government taking your offspring away, with the only course of action seemingly available to become the sexual possession of a government representative.
The most straight-forward lesson of this story, then, is that by continuing on the most ethical course of action our true intents become known.
The rise of the state of Qin started with Shang Yang; and it was by following his "agriculture cum warfare" course of action that this state became rich and powerful enough to subdue its formidable enemies.
