How small such extracellular gut symbiont genomes can be is of evolutionary interest, deserving future surveys of obligate gut symbiotic bacteria of diverse stinkbugs and other organisms.
Their interests deserve to be known and reported on.
The old model is legal, but the new one is not, since the industry refuses to endorse it.Artists' interests deserve legal protection, within limits; business models do not.
While contacts between academics and the wider world should be encouraged, vested interests deserve to be aired.All academic journals would benefit from a stricter regime.
As indicated above, privacy interests deserve similar consideration, at a minimum due to their position in data protection and privacy law.
It can be argued that insofar as the abilities required for autonomy, such as rational reflectiveness, competences in carrying out one's decisions, and the like, vary across individuals (within or between species as well), then it is difficult to maintain that all autonomous beings have equal moral status or that their interests deserve the same weight in considering decisions that affect them.
Facebook, even if driven by self-interest, deserves a little credit for fighting on the right side.
Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said Hague's arguments against low interest rates deserved to be aired, "when it can be argued they are now causing more problems than they solve".
For drawing attention to a matter of genuine and legitimate public interest, Freya Newman deserves our thanks, not punishment.
Leaks initiated by self-serving antagonists in the political process -- and calculated to exploit journalists as convenient mouthpieces -- rarely serve the public interest and deserve less protection.
It's been great to see triathlon getting the wider recognition and interest it deserves over the past decade - I think its appeal will continue to grow, especially with 2012 coming up.
