Looking at fifteen years of stem cell debate and discoveries, Thompson argues that good science and good ethics are mutually reinforcing, rather than antithetical, in contemporary biomedicine.
But latterly the trend has been to politicise the play and see Richard and the usurping Bolingbroke as parallel rather than antithetical figures: two men who, although radically different in temperament, discover the solitude of kingship and the limitations of power.
'A present person does not face obligations just because he would not be where he is today without certain past events.' 14 This is entirely true, but is orthogonal rather than antithetical to the original argument, which was about duties derived from fairness and justice, not history.
In any case the two good ol' boys are soon confronted with a designated bad guy who incarnates an entirely antithetical stereotype — or, rather, invents a new one: the gay French Formula One driver.
It does not sensationalize lust or treat piety with condescension, but rather treats these two basic, often antithetical human impulses with respect and compassion.
He stressed that the issue is not one of academic freedom, or of Stein's right to offer his controversial opinions on campus, but rather whether someone who holds views antithetical to scientific inquiry should be honored as commencement speaker.
From a moral point of view, no child deserves to be born on one side of the border rather than another, and it is deeply antithetical to our moral principles to punish individuals for what they cannot help being or doing.
This is an important clarification to make because Allah is not a God Muslims believe in that is inherently antithetical to other groups' beliefs; rather, Allah just refers to The God. From an Islamic viewpoint, this is the same God that the other Abrahamic faiths believe in.
He argues that the incumbents in the newspaper industry were caught sleeping during the initial meteoric growth period of Web sites like Wikipedia because the avenue for innovation — letting crowds rather than experts aggregate and filter data — seemed so antithetical to what newspapers did well.
Suggesting that keeping a gun in the home could possibly harm the gun owner or household members, rather that solely keep them safe, is not only antithetical to the reason why may people in the United States own guns, protection; the suggestion may be taken as a threat to one's desire to own guns, or to manufactures' ability to sell guns.
