This is a significant development in moral philosophy, as it enables us to separate arguments against utilitarianism into two classes: arguments against impartiality and arguments against aggregation.
And Mr Aliev may, in time, replace the old-school cronies he inherited from his father with modernisers.The gloomier version is that, for all his talk of media impartiality and against corruption, Mr Aliev has kept on the old elite because he agrees with them.
Beginning in the 1930s, he argued against impartiality, famously proclaiming that "The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for slavery.
The A.P.'s standards editor, Tom Kent, has cautioned against treating impartiality as "easy road kill in the rush to new journalistic techniques".
Mr Zuma's supporters have openly questioned its judges' impartiality, an unprecedented slight against one of the country's most respected institutions.
But both Downing Street and ITV are refusing to back down on the Cameron and Farage event, with the broadcaster strongly defending the impartiality of its coverage against accusations by Vote Leave that it has bowed to No 10 pressure.
Indeed, it is a devastating charge against the impartiality of a jury when we read of an "all-white" jury convicting a criminal defendant.
Then there was Burnham's speech to his department's convergence thinktank in which he said he was against any relaxation of rules requiring impartiality in TV and radio news, against product placement, wanted to make people pay for content over the web, and was in favour of regulating content in that new-media space as if it were television.
The ban was imposed in 1989 to protect the integrity and impartiality of the judicial system against outside influence.
This is certainly against the spirit of impartiality that public services require, and, it may be argued, is tantamount to discriminating against the patient on the basis of their beliefs, or lack thereof.
Even more chilling: a spokesman for the judges who are expected to monitor this month's vote declared Thursday that they were abandoning their impartiality in an effort to guard against an Islamist takeover.
