It can be argued that insofar as the abilities required for autonomy, such as rational reflectiveness, competences in carrying out one's decisions, and the like, vary across individuals (within or between species as well), then it is difficult to maintain that all autonomous beings have equal moral status or that their interests deserve the same weight in considering decisions that affect them.
The Supreme Court disagreed with Cruz and established that competence required rational and not merely factual awareness in itsPanetti v. Quarterman decision.
The SBTT was focused on a rational use of available competence in order to provide effective patient care.
The CP&T curriculum should also be linked to postgraduate and continuing education in order to maintain an optimal competence in rational prescribing after graduating.
27 28 The strategy for collaboration used during SBTT, the all team members' behaviour (A-TEAM) programme, is focused on a rational use of available competence in order to provide safe, effective patient care.
But their only chance of recovery is to have a government which has a rational economic plan, and the technical competence and political legitimacy with which to implement it.
While Panetti's lawyers claimed that Ford defined competence as having a "rational understanding," Senator Ted Cruz, then the state's Solicitor General, argued that a factual understanding was sufficient.
The results of this study show that developing a personal formulary and using an existing formulary both increase the competence of medical students in rational prescribing.
Teachers noted that fulfilling various duties at work requires a whole set of different competences and skills, such as rational time planning, an increasingly greater demand for foreign language proficiency (especially those who prepare students for international competitions), IT competence, communication skills, and general educational knowledge.
The authors show that rational thinking, like intelligence, is a measurable cognitive competence.
But down deep, they question their competence and strength (for emotional reasons, not rational ones), and today the Internet offers easy outlets to release their tensions.
