Word: criterion
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...consider also the moral side--in particular, the irony of judging Columbus' and the Europeans' faults, including plunder and slavery, by a moral criterion developed in the West--the sanctity of human life and evinced by their practice of slavery, intertribal warfare, and even human sacrifice. It is Western civilization--specifically, its values of reason, individualism, and freedom--which has made the greatest progress in history in eradicating such horrors from the face of the earth. Ear from smearing the man who introduced such a life-giving culture to this hemisphere with fatuous invocations of Hitler and Stalin. We should...
According to Mayman, the committee looks for two key elements in the creative proposals. First, "we encourage students to try things that they otherwise may not." That means that "experimental" is the main criterion; as Mayman says, "You can always find ticket buyers for and produce a typical 'Guys and Dolls' production, but it is unusual and very hard to find support for the projects that we fund." The second important element is that the project must be "of educational benefit to a range of undergraduates--the project [should] have a ripple effect among undergraduates...
...After that period we would review whether to give them a special exemption [to allow non-student voting members on the board]," Epps continued. "The criterion for that would be whether the working relationships had improved...
...becomes capable of saving very young fetuses, making them "viable" according to the ahove definition. The staff never resolves this apparent (and real) inconsistency. Using the argument that a fetus' viability determines its moral worth renders the staff vulnerable to the argument it anticipates: that if viability is the criterion for deciding when a fetus is a person, then abortion rights would have to be restricted as technology pushes the age of viability back further and further...
...choice to discriminate on the basis of race. But one week after his birthday, we observe the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, which freed us to choose to discriminate fatally on the basis of "wantedness," physical maturity, appearance, sex, health, dependence, sentience, parentage or any other criterion, including race, if it is done before birth...