In a 5-to-4 decision, the high court ruled that it was permissible to take private property and turn it over to developers as part of a plan to bolster the local economy.
The Supreme Court reaffirmed the broad view in its controversial 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London, which ruled that it is permissible to take property from one private owner and give it to another simply because it might lead to greater "economic development" in the area.
Forty-four percent said it was all right after treatment; 15 percent said it was permissible to take a bribe to speed up a patient's treatment.
Five Wishes incorporates the religious creed that while it is permissible to take action you know will cause death, it is never permissible to intend death.
More recently the Yalkut Yosef rules that it is forbidden to remove small chips of stone or dust from the Wall, although it is permissible to take twigs from the vegetation which grows in the Wall for an amulet, as they contain no holiness.
In other words, it is permissible to take life as retribution for a terrible crime; and "spreading mischief" has been interpreted pretty broadly by Islamic judges, to include apostasy (leaving Islam) and homosexuality.
The government attorney's obvious inability to explain why it is permissible to take away a constitutionally protected right for life based on a misdemeanor not even related to guns shows the weakness of her legal and moral stand.
It is also permissible to take questions and offer to follow up with an answer later if it's complicated.
In addition, it is generally permissible to take a course totally outside our research field (i.e. music, foreign language, etc). as long as that course doesn't take up too much of our time.
Rather, law aims to exclude from an agent's deliberation at least some of the considerations favoring or opposing the conduct at issue, considerations that in the absence of the law it would be permissible to take into account (Raz 1979, chaps. 1 and 2).
