For example, people who say that abortion is ... 270) refers to this as "a Humean paradox," because David Hume demonstrated that moral claims about what ought to be cannot be derived from factual ...

For example, a car driver may drive faster ... it can result in insurance companies paying out more insurance claims. Why Is Moral Hazard an Economic Problem? You can look at the 2008 financial ...

For example, "Cruelty for its own ... If you are really a moral relativist, then you have to reject all of the above claims. And this an undesirable position to occupy, both philosophically ...

It was a bold claim given the depth of the ... century to now illuminates America’s changing moral framework. Popular music in 1990s, for example, was marked by a live-and-let-live mindset ...

For example, what if the option that one thinks will do the ... Respecting which wishes best honors patient rights? In cases of conflicting moral claims, what is needed is a systematic way of thinking ...

they should not be allowed to claim the moral high ground they have spent so many years attacking, often with demonic fury. Take, for example, the fraught question of religious freedom.

For example, one is either for or against abortion ... As a result, the discussion is muddled, the debate overheated and the moral claims are debased. Religious and educational leaders once ...

At best they are examples of blowing off steam ... If meant for a few friends, no harm done. But when claims of moral superiority displace actual, rational argumentation, the public debate ...

Some economists claim to have evidence that moral hazard eliminates most positive ... know how people with addiction actually behave. For example, one methadone patient described his periods ...

Science can also play a role in moral disputes -- by, for example, providing evidence that challenges a moral claim. Thus, if someone makes an argument about abortion or euthanasia and appeals to ...