It's a mystery, too, why True favors some factual considerations over others.
To him, religion-based moral objections seemed to deserve more weight than either factual considerations (homosexuality is not destructive) or rights-based concerns (gay people's rights must be protected).
While representative institutions may indeed hold intense deliberations on many subjects, direct-democratic decision-making processes can also provide for specific issues the opportunity of intense and widespread public debates, during which citizens can become informed about controversial value and factual considerations.
In short, good reasons involve formal considerations (what follows from what?); factual considerations (what is so?
In the Catholic News Service, Eugene J. Fisher, the Associate Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that Goldhagen avoided original research, as "such methodological and factual considerations would definitely get in the way of the demonic portrait of the Church that he seeks to paint".
Furthermore, various clinical decisions, policies and policy tools that appear to be based on solely factual considerations are in fact influenced by ethical considerations – in some cases ethical judgments that are implicit and unjustified.
Because ethical principles must be applicable to a wide variety of situations, by definition they do not take into account the millions of case-specific or conflict-specific factual and moral considerations---ultima-facie considerations---that might override them and cause exceptions.
To date, previous studies that examined smoking ban legislation and smoking behaviors with consideration of factual execution are scarce [ 9, 17].
It requires every ounce of intellect, reasoning, factual examination, political dexterity, diplomatic consideration, compassion, and strength of conviction that a mere mortal possesses.
This wasn't thoughtful voting based on close consideration of the factual merits of the issues of the moment, a rejection of the health care reform law or government stimulus (which, by the way, was begun by George W. Bush and prevented another depression).
