Others, starting with the premise that an equitable tax is one that imposes equal sacrifices on individuals at different income levels and accepting the view that the utility of any given unit of money becomes less the more money one has, have tried to demonstrate that progression is needed if the sacrifices imposed on the wealthy are not to be less than those imposed on persons less-well-off.
The answer, for proponents of public reason, is that such rules can rightly be imposed on persons when the rules can be justified by appeal to ideas or arguments that those persons, at some level of idealization, endorse or accept.
Fourth, punishment is imposed on persons who are believed to have acted wrongly (the basis and adequacy of such belief in any given case may be open to dispute).
There were editorials about, 'yes, we want a woman, but she has to be the right woman.' The standards that we are trying to impose on someone who's just a person are enormous.
It's that Jewish identity, like any other, can be imposed on one person, while another tries to adopt it voluntarily.
But it adds that Ms. Stewart is a person, "with all the vulnerability and exposure to adversity and misfortune that that implies," and contends that the law under which she is charged "was never intended to impose on such persons special duties of disclosure with respect to their private lives".
The concept does not specify whether it is wrongful to impose disadvantages on persons on account of their sexual orientation.
But I told myself I wouldn't "shove my sexuality down their throats," already engaging in the sort of self-censorship imposed on LGBTQIA persons in our society.
James Joyce (1999), for instance, thinks that Jeffrey's theory gets things exactly right in this regard, since one should not expect that reasonable conditions imposed on a person's preferences would suffice to determine a unique probability function representing the person's beliefs.
More generally speaking, a reasonably complete account of the ethics of risk must distinguish between intentional and unintentional risk exposure and between voluntary risk-taking, risks imposed on a person who accepts them, and risks imposed on a person who does not accept them.
