They argued that patenting human genes is legally indefensible and ethically wrong because it inhibits the sharing of basic scientific data and restricts access to medical information.
The AUMF premise, no matter how it gets tweaked, is enabling a system of eternal warfare, a reality that is not only financially untenable for a nation in deep debt, but also ethically indefensible.
Both the killing and captivity of dolphins are ethically indefensible.
I argue that these objections support the conclusion that the BPTD is ethically indefensible.
In a conversation recorded for the Harvard EdCast — and coinciding with a new report from the Aspen Institute on the dangers of youth football — Curren argues that it's ethically indefensible for schools to sponsor tackle football.
Auburn's mess is entertaining, of course, only if you can keep yourself from thinking how much good $11 million could do elsewhere, but colleges long ago mailed in their integrity to play this ethically indefensible game of "Monopoly".
He added, "The tragedy is that factory farming survives despite the widespread agreement that whether we are primarily concerned about animal welfare, our environment or our health, it is ethically indefensible".
Some very intelligent people have argued that giving future generations less weight than the current generation is "ethically indefensible". Other equally intelligent people have argued that weighting generations equally leads to paradoxical and even nonsensical results.
Lord Stern agrees with Frank Ramsey, an economist who wrote 80 years ago that discounting "later enjoyments in comparison with earlier ones…is ethically indefensible and arises merely from the weakness of the imagination".Other economists feel there is nothing wrong with their imaginations but plenty wrong with Lord Stern's near-zero rate.
"We will not accept the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, because it is ethically indefensible and in breach of human rights; and... as a network of artists, arts workers and a leading cultural organisation, we do not want to be associated with these practices," they said.
They deemed this practice ethically indefensible and likened it to a form of euthanasia.
