The green paper proposes to replace these unnecessarily detailed requirements with a more general duty under which judges would have discretion to explain the sentence in their own way, in a manner that can be understood by all.
Thus, on this account, the consequentialist secures only derivatively special obligations: reasons to take special care of a select group of people that are derived from a more general duty to care for all persons as such.
My relation to you (my status as defined by past action), i.e.that I have made a promise to you, does not simply facilitate my fulfilling some more general duty, but, rather, is part of the basic explanation of why I have the obligation to remind you of your commitment.
Importantly, the agency responsible for regulatory compliance will often be separate from that responsible for more general policing duties.
Perhaps it's a curse to live so close to this core, and perhaps it's merely an intensification of a more general conflict between duty and consciousness, between society and self.
Scannell contrasts that attitude with the perspective of those members of the Greatest Generation, for instance, who often volunteer out of a more general sense of a duty and obligation.
Indeed, the structure of the role morality defence of the dirty hands story provides a curious inversion of the role morality logic since that logic requires that emergency situations allow or even demand the overturning of the role duties by the more general demands of a deeper morality.
Yet the ultimate effect of this is to restrict the Foreign Office from intervening on behalf of those individuals in question when such an intercession conflicts with its duty to further more general British interests.
He combined his pastoral duties with other church offices, hymn-writing, and more general literary work which included a critical study of the complete works of the 17th-century cleric Jeremy Taylor.
Without these prompts, nurses were inclined to discuss other more general matters, such as the many difficulties they experienced in fulfilling their duties; staffing shortages; NHS policy or their perceptions of hospital managers.
