Sentence examples for ethical equivalent from inspiring English sources

It seems we may all be vulnerable to moral illusions the ethical equivalent of the bending lines that trick the eye on cereal boxes and in psychology textbooks.

While the husband is not — and given your specialty, is unlikely ever to be —your patient formally, once you discuss medical options with him and his wife, perhaps including procedures that involve him physically, he is the ethical equivalent of your patient.

You know what your favorite brands are, where to find them online, and maybe you occasionally find yourself wanting to patronize the green, "ethical" equivalent of your favorite brands.

We're satisfied with being the ethical equivalent of jungle cats?

In that sense, hypocrisy is the ethical equivalent of literary irony--a defect in me everybody else sees but about which I remain blithely unsuspecting.

He wants an ethical revolution equivalent to the Copernican revolution in physics.

Our Institute's ethical committee is equivalent to the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).

All animal protocols were approved by the authors' respective Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (or equivalent ethical review panel) and were in accordance with either the National Institute of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (NIH Publications No. 80-23) revised 1996 or with U.K. Home Office Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.

That meant obtaining ethical approval from the equivalent of American institutional review boards (known as I.R.B.s), Dr. Quake advised, as well as getting informed consent from the couples participating and only editing genes to address a serious medical need.

An alternative view in the workgroup was that such studies should be examined and reviewed following the principles of balancing benefits and risks, the ascertainment of an informed consent procedure and an independent assessment by an independent ethical review board or its equivalent.

This is evidence, inconclusive perhaps, but not question-begging, that they are open, that the kind of putative naturalistic equivalents of our ethical concepts Moore considers do indeed fail to capture something essential aspect of our moral concepts (Ball 1988).