If you require a rationale for a third glass of steaming mulled claret, open the windows halfway but don't close them.
If Robert Courtney's indistinct moral code required a rationale for his criminal behavior, he most likely took comfort in what amounted to his defense in the civil proceedings against him -- namely, that regardless of his dilutions, his customers were destined to die anyway.
Patients usually require a rationale for their medication before following advice about taking it.
In the section 'Choice of questionnaires', the second paragraph should have read as follows: "Patients usually require a rationale for their medication before following advice about taking it.
To some, that leap still seems so inexplicable that it requires a sinister rationale: in "The Ghost," a roman à clef about Mr. Blair, the novelist Robert Harris posits that the prime minister had a secret C.I.A. connection that obliged him to pay obeisance to the White House.
However, if a coercive law can be morally legitimate even though some citizens are not in a strong position to recognize that it is, then (in principle) a coercive law can be justified even if it requires a religious rationale.
But to the extent that confusion was responsible, that sounds fixable.Niceties such as mark-to-market may or may not be too restrictive, but surely requiring a reproducible rationale for estimating the value and liquidity of an asset and enough information for the market to audit the maths can be a reasonable rule.
No doubt, those who support coercive laws that require a religious rationale might do so in an insular, intransigent, irrational, or otherwise defective manner.
Again, liberal critics deny that even the most conscientious and assiduous adherence to such constraints precludes citizens from supporting coercive laws that require a religious rationale.
