As the persecution in China progressed, overseas Falun Gong efforts increasingly tied their pleas for relief to Western human rights discourse, emphasizing the implications for freedom of speech, assembly, and conscience.
Thus we find Leibowitz arguing not only historically, but also in the sense of using the tools of rational philosophical discourse to trace the implications of certain positions to their logical conclusions.
We each have the power to elevate public discourse by expecting policy implications or beliefs to be discussed with frank discussion about the implications for the lives of all affected by a specific position.
Moreover, only a simultaneous presence of both innovative and path-dependent mechanisms ensures that a simulated discourse lives up to the implications of its real-world counterparts.
If one assumes this requirement, then one can arrive at Habermas's specific conception of reasonable moral discourse by working out the implications of his argumentation theory for the discursive testing of unconditional moral obligations.
To date Habermas has not drawn out the implications of his discourse theory for a detailed account of truth-oriented discourses, which we find most highly developed in the sciences (but see Rehg 2009, chaps. 4 6).
However, one of the "implications of this discourse is that the woman who fails to heed expert advice is portrayed as posing a risk to her foetus" [ 7] (p. 66).
The implications of such lazy discourse should be obvious.
Many have challenged the hidden assumptions underlying the import and application of performance measurement and accountability principles developed in business settings into health care settings [ 7– 9] and have sought to draw attention to the implications of the resultant discourses that are shaping public policy debates.
These discourses have implications for the magnitude of the practice, decisions on the practice of safer sex, and ultimately HIV prevention.
