Word: oughtness
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...coring and electrically jolting a sheep embryo is a huge moral distance from doing the same to a human embryo. It took 277 trials and errors to produce Dolly the sheep, creating a cellular body count that would look like sheer carnage if the cells were human. "Human beings ought never to be used as experimental subjects," Shapiro says simply...
...Chinese government contacting her office in an effort to influence United States foreign policy." Senator Diane Feinstein received a similar classified report. Clinton said that had he known about the briefing, he would have had his aides "evaluate (it) and make recommendations about what, if any, changes we ought to make and what we should be alert to. It would have provoked a red flag on my part." Clinton ordered his top advisors to get to the bottom of why allegat ions of illegal Chinese involvement were not shared with him. The FBI, for its part, had no comment...
...ought to know more about the people we're entrusting our loved ones...
...changing the law, I somehow do not see much of a connection. The abortion debate strikes such raw nerves because it is fundamentally about human life and whether or not I or anyone else may arbitrarily decide on it's definition. Prohibition was fundamentally about whether or not people ought to consume alcohol. If that being in a woman's womb is not fundemantally different from a being just out of a woman's womb, then the abortion debate is also about whether or not human life is an inherent dignity that ought to be protected...
...protect these "least among us," as many of our other articles of legislated morality already do. If that makes me an "extremist," so be it. I am not free to act on a definition of life excluding the child who was born ten seconds ago, and cannot think I ought to be free to act on an arbitrary definition of life excluding the child a minute or an hour or a month before it is born.-- Michelle K. Borras...