As we query how to evaluate existence-inducing acts for their moral permissibility – as well as outcomes or possible futures or worlds, for their moral betterness against still other worlds – we find that some of our most deeply held intuitions regarding the nature and structure of morality are thrown into doubt.
Trace elements have toxic effects when their level of permissibility is exceeded.
In addition, group discussions with trained providers indicated that the module on Islam and family planning had changed their perceptions about the permissibility of family planning.
Participants were asked at the beginning of the training session to list their own and their clients' perceptions about the permissibility of family planning in Islam.
Pair 3 suggests that people have knowledge of language (morality) that is not consciously accessed (and may even be inaccessible to consciousness) but implicitly represented, such that they produce judgments of grammatical (moral) permissibility and impermissibility that far outstrip their own capacities to reflectively identify, explain, or justify.
Utilitarians take peoples' desires and interests as given and seek to maximize their satisfaction; in so doing utilitarians suspend judgment regarding the moral permissibility of peoples' desires and preferences and of the social circumstances and institutions within which desires and preferences are formed.
Especially the fairness and social permissibility aspect might be essential for the collectivists, deduced from their orientation towards other people.
This is mainly due to issues related to access to services, restrictions on women's mobility outside their homes, fear of side effects of modern contraceptives, and perceived social disapproval from their spouses or other family members, partly attributed to misconceptions about the permissibility of family planning in Islam.
There has been increasing attention in recent years to questions about the appropriate limits of parental authority over children, about the source and extent of parents and the state's responsibilities for children, and about the moral permissibility of parents devoting substantial resources to advancing the life prospects of their children.
This awareness of a child's life underpinned parents' concerns about the permissibility of facilitating death when considering medical abortion for fetal abnormality and when their consent was sought for the withdrawal of life-support from infants with fatal abnormalities.
Those who defend the principle of double effect often assume that their opponents deny that an agent's intentions, motives, and attitudes are important factors in determining the permissibility of a course of action.
