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If these people were denied a voice ( do they have a moral right to a voice??
If one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.
If there is nothing evil in these things, if they get their moral complexion only from our feeling about them, why shouldn't they be greeted with a cheer??
If the moral code were flouted, the proper balance of the universe would be upset, and the disastrous result could be floods, plague, or famine.
If there is a moral lurking among the shenanigans, it is hard to find.
If she chose, and in that final decision discarded, what, above all, all of us value, life itself, must she not have risen to her fullest height, and transcending her murky self, felt at last the passion of a great moral decision??
Ethical egoists such as Rand who readily acknowledge the ( conditional ) value of others to an individual, and who readily endorse empathy for others, have argued the exact reverse from Rachels, that it is altruism which discriminates: " If the sensation of eating a cake is a value, then why is it an immoral indulgence in your stomach, but a moral goal for you to achieve in the stomach of others?
A more specific question could be: " If someone else can make better out of his / her life than I can, is it then moral to sacrifice myself for them if needed?
If the former, then justice is arbitrary ; if the latter, then morality exists on a higher order than God, who becomes little more than a passer-on of moral knowledge.
If one presupposes a cognitivist interpretation of moral sentences, morality is justified by the moralist's knowledge of moral facts, and the theories to justify moral judgements are epistemological theories.
If human beings are rational animals of such-and-such a sort, then the moral virtues are ...( filling in the blanks is the difficult part ).
If we can prevent something bad without sacrificing anything of comparable significance, we ought to do it ; absolute poverty is bad ; there is some poverty we can prevent without sacrificing anything of comparable moral significance ; therefore we ought to prevent some absolute poverty.
If all organisms are on one physical continuum, then we should also be on the same moral continuum.
" If as president I could have done one thing to have helped the country more ," Mr. Bush told the gathering, " it would have been to do a better job in finding a way, either through speaking out or through raising a moral standard, to strengthen the American family.
If they are correct in this, then communitarian doctrine reduces to little more than traditionalism and cultural moral relativism.
# If you don't have free will to have done other than X we cannot make the moral judgment that you shouldn't have done X.
If all surviving societies have found it necessary to impose some of the same restrictions upon the behavior of their members, this makes a strong argument that these aspects of the moral code are indispensable.
" As one Roosevelt biographer has characterized it: " If there was no practical alternative, there was certainly no moral one either.
If we consider the moral ramifications of potential policies in person-affecting terms, we will have no reason to prefer a sound policy over an unsound one provided that its effects are not felt for a few generations.
If these minimum requirements are not satisfied i. e. if a person has been, even slightly, influenced by personal emotions, feelings, instincts or culturally specific, moral codes and norms, then the analysis may be termed irrational, due to the injection of subjective bias.
If solipsism is true, then practically all standards for moral behavior would seem to be meaningless.

If and statements
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If the affiant is a party in the case, the affiant's opponent may be successful in having the affidavit admitted as evidence, as statements by a party-opponent are admissible through an exception to the hearsay rule.
Statements such as the Banach – Tarski paradox can be rephrased as conditional statements, for example, " If AC holds, the decomposition in the Banach – Tarski paradox exists.
Naamani Tarkow has written: " If one is to make sweeping statements, one may say that, save Magna Carta ( more truly, its implications ), the Act of Settlement is probably the most significant statute in English history ".
If you can carry on an intelligent conversation with an unknown partner, does this imply your statements are understood?
If we are told that at least one of two statements is true ; and also told that it is not the former that is true ; we can infer that it has to be the latter that is true.
If we have to get the feeling that everything that we do will show up in the newspapers tomorrow, you'll get whitewashed statements.
This can be indicated by verbal statements at the beginning of a composition, for example, " Tune Low C to C flat ", or " If necessary, tune high G to G sharp ".
When Franz Halder, the Chief of the Army General Staff, heard of the state of the Kriegsmarine, and its plan for the invasion, he noted in his diary, on 28 July 1940, " If that plan is true, all previous statements by the navy were so much rubbish and we can throw away the whole plan of invasion ".
If M is simple, then f is either the zero homomorphism or injective because the kernel of f is a submodule of M. If N is simple, then f is either the zero homomorphism or surjective because the image of f is a submodule of N. If M = N, then f is an endomorphism of M, and if M is simple, then the prior two statements imply that f is either the zero homomorphism or an isomorphism.
If X is totally ordered under ≤, then the following statements hold for all a, b and c in X:
Similar statements apply to the dual situation of terminal morphisms from U. If such morphisms exist for every X in C one obtains a functor V: C → D which is right-adjoint to U ( so U is left-adjoint to V ).
These authors asked people to compare written statements about the relations between several variables to graphs illustrating the same or a different relation, as in the following sentence: " If the cake is from France, then it has more sugar if it is made with chocolate than if it is made with cream, but if the cake is from Italy, then it has more sugar if it is made with cream than if it is made of chocolate.
If the person has been made to stand then that person has no lap and neither of the statements " the person's lap is empty " and " there is something on the person's lap " is true.
If Pinkerton knew this, then it directly contradicts statements in his 1883 book The Spy of the Rebellion, where he professes to be an ardent Abolitionist and hater of slavery.
If G has finitely many vertices, say n of them, then the above statements are also equivalent to any of the following conditions:
If this argument holds, and facts are taken to be what true statements stand for, then we reach the counter-intuitive conclusion that there is only one fact-" the truth ".
If statements or decisions deviated from the prescribed line, reprimands and, for persons outside public attention, punishment would ensue, such as imprisonment, torture and even death.
These leaflets contained statements such as ; " Do not submit to intimidation ", " Assert your rights ", " If you do not assert and support your rights, you are helping to deny or disparage rights which it is the solemn duty of all citizens and residents of the United States to retain ," on the grounds that military conscription constituted involuntary servitude, which is prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment.
The introduction of PNAS Plus is part of gradual shift in PNAS content described in an editorial: " If PNAS Plus succeeds, we envision transitioning to a print edition of PNAS in a magazine format comprising special features, commentaries on important papers flagged by member editors and the Editorial Board, and summary statements of the online articles.
In natural languages, an indicative conditional is the logical operation given by statements of the form " If A then B ".
If the accused admits to the offence, or there are reliable witness statements, the chair will call for proposals.

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