What should happen, however, when the patient is perceived as a complete reprobate a repugnant individual whose very presence challenges the healthcare worker's moral foundation?
I have low tolerance for socially repugnant people, particularly individuals who are in constant need of a filter for what comes out of their mouths.
I find Rand's and Hitler's idea of the Romantic individual repugnant for the same reason; it is the same Romantic individual.
The central question: Do the rights of individuals--even individuals whose politics are as repugnant as those of Nazis--take precedent over the rights of a community?
The waiting list has been eliminated.Many people will find the very idea of individuals selling their organs repugnant.
The forums are given potency by their ability to provide a sense of social connectedness among like-minded individuals, their legitimisation of otherwise repugnant beliefs, and their tendency to become "echo chambers", places where contrary views are not expressed in any form.
It might be true that 'the availability of repugnant options, and even their free pursuit by individuals, does not detract from their autonomy,' but this is largely an empirical matter.
Fry-Revere responded very succinctly by saying that in a pluralistic democracy it is up to individuals to decide what they find repugnant and it is not fair for the majority to prohibit it through law.
Education policy focused on the educational choices of individual parents is not just morally repugnant but stupid and shortsighted.
Parfit (1984) and others argued that classical utilitarianism is subject to the repugnant conclusion: a world with a very large number of individuals whose welfare levels are barely above zero could have a larger sum-total of welfare, and therefore count as better, than a world with a smaller number of very well-off individuals.
This is what the court does when it is at its best — whether it be striking down the constitutionality of a popular school prayer or upholding an individual's right to express even the most repugnant of ideas.
