Historically, viewing some humans as 'non-persons' has always been used "as a permissive notion that takes the moral heat off certain quandaries raised by modern medicine" [ 67].
Against what Jansen perceived as the Commission's "hijacking" of ethical questions and their treatment of empirically verifiable hypotheses about the social consequences of permissive policies as "self-evident moral truths", he recommends a publicly accountable empirical approach that encourages debate and the determination of facts.
And Leibniz argues that God's permissive willing of evils is morally permissible if and only if such permission of evil is necessary in order for one to meet one's moral obligations.. This, Leibniz believes, resolves any holiness problem that might arise in so far as God is considered as the creator of the universe.
While hard-pressed to maintain his own moral ballast within this permissive society, Calvino has a sense of irony that allows him to work for ex-pat wives who want sordid proof of their husbands' infidelity in the Thai capital, which ranks No. 1 internationally as the "hub of marriage destruction".
Here are the issues and how people responded: Of the 18 moral issues, Democrats were more permissive than Republicans on 14.
He worried about the national debt, big government, bureaucrats who lacked common sense, permissive parents, leftist radicals and America succumbing to moral decay.
And so, through repeated exploitation of our piecemeal moral relaxation, we will all end up living in an apocalyptically permissive Gomorrah.
An evangelical Christian and self-styled moral crusader, she set out to stem what she saw as the polluted tide of the permissive society, particularly on television, and most specifically on the BBC.
But she says she was lucky to grow up in Bloomsbury all the same, and is relaxed about the sexually permissive culture in which she was raised: "I think it's inevitable, I mean I've got no moral feelings against it.
There is another, less permissive position constructed along similar lines, but based on a more austere view of what counts as a moral disaster that might justify resort to terrorism.
