Moral responsibilities

This may overstate, however, the degree to which the management of everyday life and its objects, like the lawn, is passive. The level of civic engagement embodied in the maintenance of the lawn in a face-to-face society like Kingberry Court suggests something else. Despite an insistence that the lawn is collectively trivial and tangential, there is a persistent moral responsibility tied to lawn care that no resident can deny. 

Coastal population is expected to double in the next 30 years, suggesting that pollutant loads and habitat loss will continue to increase unless we choose to develop and live in a dramatically different, and more sustainable way. The good news is that more and more effort is being directed at effecting such a change. As marine scientists, we have a moral responsibility to increase and apply our imderstanding of marine biogeochemistry to help this happen. 

Health and safety in a laboratory environment is the moral responsibility of all, but is also a legal responsibility for employers and supervisors. Space prohibits more than a few guidelines, and indeed, many books have been written on the subject. These include ... 

When a [drug addictl acts from a literally irresistible urge, he is undergoing a kind of physical process that is not reasons responsive, and it is this lack of reasons responsiveness of the actual physical process that rules out guidance control and moral responsibility. (Fischer 1994,174)... 

Fingarette, Heibert. 1988. Hetny Drinking. Berkeley University of California Press. Fischer, John Martin. 1987. "Responsiveness and Moral Responsibility." In Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions, edited by F. Schoeman. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 

Greenspan, Patricia. 1986. In Moral Responsibility, edited by John Fischer. Ithaca,... 

Stump, Eleanore. 1993. "Sanctification, Hardening of the Heart, and Frankfurt s Conception of Free Will." In Perspectives on Moral Responsibility, edited by John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza. Ithaca Cornell University Press. 

Werhane, Patricia H. and M. Gorman. 2005. Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Life-Enhancing Drugs, and Corporate Moral Responsibilities. Business Ethics Quarterly 15 595-613. 

Despite extensive use, animal models have not contributed significantly to AIDS research. While monkeys, rabbits, and mice can be infected with HIV, none develops the human AIDS syndrome. Of over 100 chimpanzees infected with HIV over a 10-year period, only two became sick. Because chimpanzees turned out to be poor models for AIDS, and were expensive to maintain, all of the animals were faced with euthanasia (a euphemism for being killed). In 1997, the National Research Council recommended a solution. For all of the chimpanzees housed in research facilities throughout the United States, a breeding moratorium was introduced and specific steps taken toward making long-term care available for the primates. Animal rights supporters applauded the decision on the basis of moral responsibility. 

For more far-reaching conceptual discussions the reader ts referred to Nozick. "Coercion" and Frankfurt, "Coercion and moral responsibility". Recent discussions with af lication to the wage contract are Zimmerman, "Coercive wage offers" Alexander, "Zimmerman on coercive wage offers", and Zimmerman s "Reply". 

Fraitkfurt, "Coeidon and moral responsibility" discusses this issue. 

Frankfurt, H. G. Coercion and moral responsibility, in T. Honderkh fed.). Essays on Freedom of Action, 63-86. Lond[Pg.540]

A development of civil defense programs such as suggested during the symposium shows clearly a defensive rather than offensive philosophy. It is a concrete demonstration not of aggressive intent but of our assuming responsibility to our families, our neighbors, and ourselves. Less apathy and more public support for a sound civil defense program will meet our moral responsibilities better than will withdrawal in horror. 

Szasz, T. S. A Lexicon of Lunacy Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility, and Psychiatry. New Brunswick, NJ Transaction Publishers, 1993. 

Only those workers may be used in production, inspection, filling, packaging, warehousing, distribution, handling of raw materials, intermediate products, unfilled products, packages, and finished products whose qualifications, moral responsibility, and health condition guarantee the fulfillment of the requirements placed on said activities. 

At Lake Success, the United Nations was frantically seeking to find some means of discharging its legal and moral responsibility for the future of Palestine, a responsibility which would become actual instead of theoretic on May 15 when the British mandate would come to an end. The United States had just edged away from its former support of the partition resolution of the General Assembly, and was proposing a temporary U.N, trusteeship for Palestine. 

Nevertheless, it may be argued that, like typhoid fever, homosexuality is a medical diagnosis, and that the physician s moral responsibility for the use to which this diagnosis is put is the same as that of any other citizen. I cannot agree with this view. It is the physician, not the ordinary citizen, who makes the diagnosis hence, his responsibility for its use, like the policeman s for the use of his gun, is infinitely greater than that of a bystander. 

Slavery was, to be sure, a horribly oppressive system that severely restricted the ambit within which its victims could make decisions. But slavery did not extinguish altogether the possibility of choice. It was that possibility which endowed slaves with moral responsibility then, and which renders them susceptible to moral assessment today. It is precisely because they made wrong choices, albeit in excruciating circumstances, that slave informants who betrayed other slaves can appropriately be condemned. Similarly, it is because enslaved rebels made right choices in difficult situations that they can now be applauded. (43)... 

The faith of Islam teaches moral responsibility that enables men and women, and forbids the shedding of innocent blood. This is a clash of political visions. (President George Bush). He believes that the West is in a batde for survival in the struggle with radical Islamists. Facing a new dark age, Muslims and non-Muslims need to come together on equal terms. A thesis of this book is that perhaps a better understanding of tbe chemistry of the brain and its relationship to behavior can enhance social, cultural and political forces in the interest of all humankind. 

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