What we owe everything is an opportunity to reveal any value it might have, rather than assuming that only persons have the kind of value that morally warrants attention (Birch 1993).
However, in 2013 the international community's resistance to U.S. plans to launch missile strikes against Syria in retaliation for that country's alledged use of internationally prohibited chemical weapons against its own population added significant doubt to the already controversial assertion that the R2P principle, however warranted morally, is a legally binding principle.
There is significant disagreement, however, about whether morally-based refusal is warranted by retail pharmacists.
Recall that Habermas claims that therapeutic modifications are morally permissible because we are warranted in presuming consent to remove a profound evil.
"A caution is warranted concerning the use of a theme that suggests a morally acceptable motive for the crime.
When a person performs or fails to perform a morally significant action, we sometimes think that a particular kind of response is warranted.
But who decided that only profiting from another's success, rather than failure, is morally justified?An example—I've heard it implied that purchasing a credit default swap is only warranted if you also hold the security it insures.
In the process the exploiters, here and abroad, amass fortunes and power not warranted by the value of their work, at least when their "contributions" are judged by a morally prudent metric.
Thus, while both heterosexual men and women may be stigmatised by HIV infection, heterosexual men also become morally ostracised through their discursively constructed identity of being 'guilty' of creating HIV-positive 'victims' for whom sympathy and protection are warranted.
