Spiritual care is usually given in a one-to-one relationship, is completely person centred and makes no assumptions about personal conviction or life orientation.
Smith ([1994]) posits that the distinction between belief (when meaning subjective and based on personal conviction) and acceptance (when meaning a systematic evaluation of the evidence) is a crucial aspect of understanding the nature of scientific knowledge.
The difference, then, between the ACP's well-argued position and the personal conviction I have long held reduces to something much like, though a bit distinct from, semantics: the semantics of suicide.
"That's totally a personal conviction.
One answer is personal conviction.
So this was his personal conviction.
This all had to do with his personal conviction".
He's well educated, with military experience and a deep sense of personal conviction.
It is a lack of personal conviction that is my problem".
People should not be rewarded for thwarting the justice system out of personal conviction.
