There are actors it's good to see in a movie, regardless of impersonally routine direction and a script with utterly foreseeable action and leaden humor, and this comedy, set in the world of competitive collegiate a-cappella singing, is filled with such actors.
Cumulative impacts are defined as: "the impact on the environment which results from the incremental impact of the action when added to other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future actions regardless of what agency (Federal or non-Federal) or person undertakes such other actions"...
"The ongoing live-capture trade since 1989 may have contributed to a cumulative decline over the past two decades," the agency writes, "and we considered this in combination with other past, present, and foreseeable future actions".
Applying the case of Hughes v Lord Advocate, Kennedy found that the harm was not reasonably foreseeable, and both actions under nuisance and negligence must fail.
The decision illustrates how the quagmire in Albany — the state budget is now a month late, with no action foreseeable — is already taking a toll on core city services.
His team is still hoping for a legal reversal, but with no foreseeable timeline for action, the family remains in a cruel limbo.
If the permissibility of an action depended only on the consequences of the action, or only on the foreseen or foreseeable consequences of the action, then the distinction that grounds the principle of double effect would not have the moral significance claimed for it (see the related entry on consequentialism).
Legal language is full of different ways to parse the idea of intentionality, but one basic principle is that a person is held to "intend" the foreseeable consequences of their actions.
In general, people need to care about the foreseeable consequences of their actions.
Do we want agents to feel as morally detached from the foreseeable consequences of their actions as the IFD would seem to represent?
