Could we even communicate with other species?" Miguel Nicolelis, a pioneer in the field, says that if invasive technology was deemed safe and ethically permissible, "doing something like controlling a car with your thoughts would be fairly trivial".
Would it have been permissible to say something?
Is it permissible to call something purple for rhythmic purposes when in fact it's pink?
A statutory basis does not make something permissible under international law where it violates fundamental human rights.
In Gawain's story, a beggar had kissed a queen, something permissible only when the sun appeared to stand still in the heavens, at the sunstead, the solstice, as the shortest day of the year came and went once more.
When that claim, for birthday cards, was rejected, he heard her tell her office manager to call the printer and "tell them to change it (the invoice) to something permissible".
Standard arguments within legal ethics attempt to show why it is permissible to do something as a lawyer that it would be wrong to do as an ordinary person.
When fear is justified and when the policies one advocates will genuinely reduce the possibility that the thing feared will come to pass, then "the politics of fear" is not only permissible, it is something like a duty.
It is important to appreciate that James is not claiming that it is morally permissible to believe something to which one is not epistemically entitled.
These assert that something is permissible iff (if and only if) its negation is not obligatory, impermissible iff its negation is obligatory, omissible iff it is not obligatory, and optional iff neither it nor its negation is obligatory.
Simply because something is permissible, does not mean it's proper.
