It was unfortunate for them that the same day, Ramadan published an op-ed piece in a national newspaper explaining his – very reasonable – motives and deliberations.
Three jurors suggested that more direction, including on what constituted reasonable doubt, might help deliberations.
Second, like Kant, Rawls regards moral principles as the imposition of reasonable constraints on individuals' rational deliberations and choices in pursuit of their interests.
Rawls's primary model of idealization (1971, 118) is the veil of ignorance which models parties as reasonable by withholding from their deliberations information that would undermine their impartiality.
Citing Daniels [ 117], Boggio concludes that 'ethics require "that there is a space for deliberation in which reasonable people will disagree about what is ethically required, either from a human rights perspective or from other ethical conceptions"' [ 116].
As a consequence, the results of political deliberations are never beyond reasonable contestation.
In light of the potential impacts of technological developments on communities, Shrader-Frechette (1994, 2002) has argued for including members of the public in deliberations about health effects of and reasonable exposure limits on environmental pollutants, especially radioactive materials.
There is no need for a background consensus based on cultural homogeneity to act as a 'catalyzing condition' for democracy to the extent that the democratic political process, involving public deliberation and decision-making, makes "a reasonable political understanding possible, even among strangers".
Others however, argued that although all standard-setting methods require human judgement, they can be made by careful deliberation and hence be fair and reasonable.
This argument requires a further assumption: that R is a reason for an agent to do A only if he could, through sound deliberation, come to recognize it as a reason for his doing A. This assumption seems reasonable given the conceptual premise, that the notion of a 'reason for action' is just some notion of an explanation of action.
