The phrase "ethically justified" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a decision or course of action that is considered to be morally or ethically sound. For example: "The decision to reduce staff numbers was ethically justified in order to keep the company afloat during the economic downturn."
Translated into an ethical proposition, the principle reads: "Whenever there is at least one other person (person 2) who is willing to serve someone (person 1) who for whatever reason person 3 refuses to serve, then person 3 is ethically justified in refusing service to person 1; in other words, person 3 is ethically justified in committing an act of discrimination".
The overarching research question of the ethical study is: under which conditions is continuous sedation until death ethically justified?
We present and defend ethically justified guidelines for pharmacologic research that involves pregnant women.
Only if there was genuine doubt about the benefits of prophylaxis would a placebo group be ethically justified.
Thus, it is unethical to hunt animals but ethically justified to kill an animal in self-defense.
While many people may believe that such research is ethically justified, we should not overlook what it does to the animals.
Here, as elsewhere in the book, the author is less successful in delineating general principles for judging when and how incentives are ethically justified.
These models, notwithstanding differences among species, still represent a major source of information about biological systems and can have undisputable translational value, provided that appropriate measures are taken to ensure that experiments are both scientifically and ethically justified.
Scientists and physicians have raised concerns about whether the trial is ethically justified.
Scientists and physicians are also raising concerns about whether the ReAnima trial is ethically justified.
The new results may also influence the ongoing political debate over whether research with human embryonic stem cells, cloned or not, is ethically justified.
