Sentence examples for existing persons from inspiring English sources

The reductio ad absurdum of this argument is the prohibition of any form of contraception by certain religious conservatives, who place abstract reproductive possibilities above existing persons.

But why should we restrict our attention only to presently existing persons?

Furthermore, can presently existing persons, in making such decisions, be guided by the interests of future persons?

Lindemann worries, furthermore, that such extraordinary measures help enforce an image of the fetus as already a person with a claim on resources as large as or even larger than that of existing persons.

And suppose that those low wellbeing levels cannot be justified (on the ground, for example, that they save many existing persons from still lower wellbeing levels) and that we are accordingly convinced that act A is wrong.

However, what many people find disturbing is the idea of creating a genetic duplicate of an existing person, or a person who has existed.

"For an existing person, the presence of bad things is bad and the presence of good things is good," Benatar explained.

The new service will improve upon banks' existing person-to-person payment services, and it will compete directly with PayPal, which has shuttled money between consumers for years.

In the first case, I added happiness to the world by helping an existing person; whereas in the second case, I added happiness by creating a person who will be happy.

"I wanted to precisely say that this person isn't an existing person in high office," said Mr. Iannucci, a British comedian and producer who is best known to American audiences for his 2009 political satire "In the Loop".

Moreover, if the embryo from which such cells were derived happened to be a clone of an existing person, they would not be recognised as foreign by the immune system of their progenitor and might thus be used as treatments for diseases that require the replacement of a particular, lost cell type.