In the last month, an increasing number of Vatican officials have raised questions about the morality, necessity and consequences of a war in Iraq.
Ever since President Harry S. Truman made the fateful decision to unleash atomic weapons on Japan, contemporaries and historians have debated the morality, necessity, and consequences of the choice.
Although the pope never mentioned Iraq, his remarks were delivered against the backdrop of a possible American-led military strike there, and they followed statements by Vatican officials who raised questions about the morality, necessity and consequences of war in Iraq.
Morality is a biological necessity and a consequence of human development.
Our culture has made a good night of sleep a novelty rather than a necessity, and the consequence can be deadly.
Still, the Delvaux report has sounded a clarion call at the outset of 2017 on the normative necessities and legal consequences of technology that emerge at greater speed than traditional democratic processes may be capable of accommodating – at least without being outdated by the time of enactment.
Taxation is a practical matter, and if, in the choice of the rule we adopt, we may, as the Court has said in Farmers' Loan & Trust Company v. Minnesota, give some consideration to its practical effect, we ought not, I think, to overturn long-established rules governing the constitutional power to tax, without some consideration of the necessity and of all consequences of the change.
Our research raises questions, about the necessity for harsh penalties and consequences under the Liquor Act given the confusion in communities surrounding the ability to become carers, work in child related employment and/or obtain work at all.
Somewhat later, he clarifies why it is that human nature produces the natural law: "The law of nature is a dictate of right reason, which points out that an act, according as it is or is not in conformity with rational nature, has in it a quality of moral baseness or moral necessity; and that, in consequence, such an act is either forbidden or enjoined" (I.1.10.1).
There are fine passages about the quiet, settled rhythms of a small Irish community with its own composed rules and consequences, and about the necessity of acceptance as one grows older.
Depending of the defined goals and the objective necessities, consequences and boundary conditions emerge that allow the decision makers to trigger meaningful measures and activities.
