Word: banning
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...have seen no effect in this area. In 1992 France interrupted its tests for political reasons before the completion of our program. It was indispensable to carry out several more to ensure the security and reliability of our arsenal. Finally, not only will France sign the nuclear test-ban treaty [in 1996], it was also the first country to call for the zero option, that is, a ban even on small tests...
...parameters, unlike many other United Nations organizations, which are diffuse and disorganized." UNICEF's new ten-point anti-war plan calls for systematic reporting of war crimes against women and children, moves to discourage child conscription, to monitor the effects of economic sanctions on children, and to ban land mines. During the Iran-Iraq war, Iran sometimes sent armies of children through Iraqi minefields, sacrificing them in order to make a safe pathway for troops...
...just: when the law is a small burden and would save many lives (such as mandatory seat belt laws) or when the law interferes with someone who may be under a temporary loss of control (such as stopping someone from jumping off the top of their building). A ban on divorce passes neither of these tests. As a society, we should be very cautious about enacting laws which attempt to engineer the way a group of people live when this group does not want engineering. Such laws can easily (and there are innumerable precedents in history) degenerate into a tyranny...
...reading David B. Lat's column "Imposing Morality Is Fun" (Nov. 28, 1995) I was struck not so much by the supposition that "all laws rely on certain assumptions that are distinctly moral in nature," but rather by the morality of absolutism which his support for a ban on divorce demonstrates. "There are many different moralities in our pluralistic society. What we must realize is that some moralities are simply better than others." Since I do not particularly take issue with this claim. I would like to point out some of the problems I see with the position...
...course anyone wishing to remarry within a Christian church should be able to consider why the first marriage was unsuccessful and to give reasons why the new one will be. In many cases remarriage may not be advisable, but an absolute ban on divorce lacks true tolerance which is based on a sympathetic understanding of the natures and problems of real men and women. --Abby A.N. Vigneron...