Mohist ethics and epistemology are characterized by a concern with finding objective standards that will guide judgment and action reliably and impartially so as to produce beneficial, morally right consequences.
When you start choosing the right behavior and thoughts — which will take a lot of discipline — you'll get the right consequences.
For me, that meant setting up the right rules (seven hours of sleep a night, no more) and the right consequences (lose TV if I sleep in and miss a workout) to accomplish my goal.
According to this school of thought, the fundamental characteristic of the Sri Lankan model is the relentless military assault on the rebel controlled territories and facilities regardless of the humanitarian or human rights consequences.
But a rigorous debate within the United States about drug policy and its financial and human rights consequences is long overdue.
The climate, biodiversity and human rights consequences are clearly not good, and no "solution" to global warming.
Though there is hypocrisy on both sides, the widening rift between U.S. values and actions has real, unintended human rights consequences.
"We have been pushing this argument for drug policy reform because the human rights consequences of drug policy haven't seemed to generate the interest that talking about the rainforest does – and if that's what will get their attention, I am happy to lay out the problem".
Violence risk assessment potentially leads to detention of individuals for longer than necessary, with its related economic, 65 social, 66 and civil rights consequences.
He referred to "lazy blacks [who want] the government to give them everything", and said: "when I was a young man, you didn't call a black a black, you called him a negro" – comments that prompted the amazed Mandvi to ask Yelton: "You know we can hear you, right?" The consequence?
If Lewis is right, the Consequence argument fails to show that any compatibilist account of ability to do otherwise must be mistaken.
