In my psychology practice, I have observed the negative effects of early adolescent binge drinking and have wondered whether the reinstatement of a drinking age of 18 might support a more stringent prohibition for our youngest teenagers while allowing our college-aged, combat-eligible older ones to benefit from parental monitoring and modeling.
In contrast, the view institutionalized by human subjects research oversight committees is that humans have a moral status which provides them with substantial moral protections, including a very stringent prohibition on harmful research without informed consent.
For instance, The Public Order Act 1986 in the U.K. does not require such a stringent barrier to prohibition.
These include prohibitions or stringent limits on in vitro fertilization, abortion and many contraceptive practices.
America's stringent enforcement of pot prohibition, which artificially inflates black market pot prices and ensures that only criminal enterprises will be involved in the production and sale of this commodity, is helping to fuel this violence.
Even such a stringent moral rule as the prohibition of deliberate use of violence against innocent people may be overridden, if the disaster that cannot be prevented in any other way is grave enough.
However, one can adopt rule-consequentialism as one's ethical theory and yet view the immunity of civilians or common citizens and the attendant prohibition of terrorism as very stringent, but not absolute moral rules.
The Rent Stabilization Association and other landlord groups in the city had challenged the law, contending that it violated the State Legislature's prohibition against local laws being "more stringent or restrictive" than the state-established standards for the rent-control system.
Once we recognized that respiratory disease transmission might be a problem, we instituted stringent hygiene precautions such as the wearing of masks, and prohibition of individuals with respiratory symptoms from entering the forest [16].
