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Lacking a universal code, many people have tried to substitute specific rules. Says Ethicist Daniel Callahan, co-founder and director of the Hastings Center think tank near New York City: "When most people talk about morals, they are concerned with laws and regulations and codes." When laws do not exist to regulate a particular situation, "we assume it is pretty much every person for himself...
...representatives meeting separately with Syrian, Jordanian and joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegations. The plan would limit the role of the Soviet Union and would probably rule out the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization unless the P.L.O. agreed at long last to renounce violence and recognize Israel's right to exist...
...question the decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to allow the animals created through biotechnology to be patented ((Ethics, May 4)). We have destroyed the environment and are now creating new organisms that can exist in the conditions we have made. How long can this disregard for nature continue before our actions backfire? Have we the wisdom to understand the consequences...
Your article reports the increasing disunity among white South Africans in their attitudes toward apartheid but fails to suggest that black Africans too are far from monolithic. Cleavages exist between the urban and rural blacks, between those in South Africa proper and those in the tribal homelands. It would be impossible to derive majority rule out of South Africa's racial, religious and political melange. The only satisfactory solution would be a confederation system, with several tiers of government. Continuation of the present system or the replacement proposed by the African National Congress would breed chaos and disunity and, eventually...
...commerce, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade has helped to slow the growth of protectionism. In banking, cooperation has worked to contain the threat of massive defaults and to manage the vast shifts of wealth brought on by the OPEC cartel. New opportunites for progress may exist in areas as disparate as protecting the ozone layer, stabilizing exchange rates, establishing rules for capital movements and trade, limiting nuclear weapons, or even the use of peace-keeping forces. Further possibilities will doubtless appear with increasing frequency over your lifetime...