The problem is that the Human Rights Act, in my view, [has been] incorporated into British law in such a way that it's given the courts an ability to come up with a lot of very odd and perverse judgments.
"This can mean an infertile person is denied treatment, a somewhat perverse social judgment which impacts upon clinical decision-making and is unique to this area of medicine," she said.
Without the right values, judgment can easily be trumped by perverse incentives that encourage poor ethical choices.
It was a fair judgment: Baldwin's Donaghy — too smart and too perverse to be a standard business blowhard — was an obvious asset.
In another case, Lincolnshire chief constable Neil Rhodes was suspended by PCC Alan Hardwick but was reinstated following a High Court judgment that described the decision as "irrational and perverse".
It pays off more frequently now than in the past, when his attitude was cheekier, his judgment wobblier and too many of his creations gratuitously perverse.
The doctor wrote: "I sense that you have a strong sense of justice, [but] whatever your convictions, if you truly believe that those who oppose abortion are all ideologues driven by perverse desires to inflict suffering on women, then you, in my judgment, are not fair-minded".Mr Obama says he "felt a pang of shame".
In addition, though different persons can of course differ in particular judgments, it is also obvious that our judgments coincide to a remarkable extent: it would be odd or perverse for any person to deny that a perfect rose or a dramatic sunset was beautiful.
The "Imp of the Perverse" also describes the need to confess and be punished, often against one's better judgment.
