Private life, a margin of inviolability for our thoughts, feelings, intimacies, reflections, anxieties, our hopes and nascent plans, and our recoveries from the abrasions of life, are fundamentals of personal and psychological health.
In the light of the Holocaust and other atrocities of war, that intention is to assert, as the default position, a status of inviolability for the human individual, independently of any other fact about him or her.
(For further reasons to reject arguments for the inviolability of the life of a person, including Velleman's, see e.g., McMahan 2002, Young 2007 and Sumner 2011).
Unlike libertarians, however, egalitarian liberals do not think that respect for the inviolability of the person commits us to the principle of self-ownership (for more on this issue, see section 3.1.2 below).
Alas, I get the feeling that China is seen as cynically trailing in Russia's slipstream, using Moscow to make the public case for the inviolability of national sovereignty, or as it is known in this case, defending tyranny.
This principle, which is meant to protect the inviolability of the capacity for voluntary choice in the context of research, is also fundamental in the ethical and legal principles that govern the doctrine of informed consent in the context of treatment.
Their acts and wilful dismissal of our religious principles alienates them from any association with our community for whom the inviolability of every human life is the founding principle (Q.5 32)," the leaders wrote in the letter.
The need to respect human rights, democratic principles and the state based on the rule of law is something that deserves our full support, and I wonder whether, in the negotiations with the Council, I should not also add respect for the territorial inviolability of third countries as a criterion.
A spokesman said Ban "recalls the fundamental principle of the inviolability of consular premises and calls for the immediate, unconditional and safe release of those abducted".
The European Community (ultimately succeeded by the EU), for example, issued declarations in 1991 on the new states that were then forming in eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia that required, inter alia, respect for minority rights, the inviolability of frontiers, and commitments to disarmament and nuclear nonproliferation.
It was high time, Johnson declared, that Britons rediscovered their pride in a war fought for freedom, democracy and the inviolability of neutral Belgium.
