Robert Goodin takes yet another approach and argues that the demandingness objection can be ‘ blunted ’ by treating utilitarianism as a guide to public policy rather than one of individual morality.

However, a similar objection was noted by Thomas Nagel in 1970 who claimed that consequentialism ‘ treats the desires, needs, satisfactions, and dissatisfactions of distinct persons as if they were the desires, etc., of a mass person .’ and even earlier by David Gauthier who wrote that utilitarianism supposes ‘ that mankind is a super-person, whose greatest satisfaction is the objective of moral action.

# there was a ‘ special section ’ in the Anarchist Revolutionary Military Council constitution that dealt with disobedience and desertion " secretly and without mercy ” ( this objection was made in spite of the fact that Special Punitive Brigades of the Bolshevist Red Army had already been shooting deserters and members of their families since 1918 );

The same objection applies to the term ‘ device ’.

She discusses Hilton Kramer's objection to the piece as an extension of Modernist ideas about art, stating, " the piece blatantly subverts modernist value systems, which privilege the ‘ pure ’ aesthetic object over the debased sentimentality of the domestic and popular arts ".

:" He sees no objection to the word Missionary appearing on your passport as long as it is clearly understood what kind of a ‘ missionary ’ a Bahá ’ í pioneer is.

In his ruling Justice Longe averred among other things that ,"... the Attorney general did not oppose the objection raised by counsel to the ‘ accused ’ persons, Chief Rotimi Williams, on the ground that the information was filed by private prosecutor ( Chief Gani Fawehinmi ) when the information had not been completed and especially when the ‘ INFORMATION IMPLICATED ONE OF THE PROSECUTION WITNESSES ’( Kayode Soyinka )... the proof of evidence before the Court was mere HEARSAY ….

In 1981 he tried to amend a Finance Bill to allow those with a ‘ conscientious objection to paying for expenditure on defence ’ to pay the military part of their taxes to the then Ministry of Overseas Development.

The objection arises when utilitarianism is mistakenly taken to be a decision-making procedure rather than a criterion of what is right.

Mill sees this as the strongest objection to utilitarianism and sets out to argue

Philosopher G. H. R. Parkinson notes a common objection to Kant's argument: that what ought to be done does not necessarily entail that it is possible.

One objection to the argument is that it leaves open the question of why the First Cause is unique in that it does not require a cause.

An objection against the theist implication of the proposition is that even if one accepts the argument as a proof of a First Cause, it does not identify that First Cause with God.

Experimental mathematics continues to grow in importance within mathematics, and computation and simulation are playing an increasing role in both the sciences and mathematics, weakening the objection that mathematics does not use the scientific method.

That is, " the designation ' subspecies ' is used to indicate an objective degree of microevolutionary divergence " One objection to this idea is that it does not specify what degree of differentiation is required.

When it comes to the use of divine hiddenness as an objection or evidence against God, Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul Moser in the introduction to a volume of papers dedicated to refutations of Schellenberg's argument, cite Nietzsche's question: " a god who is all-knowing and all-powerful and who does not even make sure his creatures understand his intentions — could that be a god of goodness?

One objection against an instinctive and genetic basis for the incest taboo is that incest does occur.

However, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights left the issue of conscientious objection inexplicit, as we see in this quote from War Resisters International: " Article 18 of the Covenant does put some limits on the right freedom of thought, conscience and religion, stating that manifestations must not infringe on public safety, order, health or morals.

On July 30, 1993, explicit clarification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Article 18 was made in the United Nations Human Rights Committee general comment 22, Paragraph 11: " The Covenant does not explicitly refer to a right to conscientious objection, but the Committee believes that such a right can be derived from article 18, inasmuch as the obligation to use lethal force may seriously conflict with the freedom of conscience and the right to manifest one's religion or belief.

Suppose, however, that we pass over this objection ; how does Peacock lay the foundation for general algebra?

To criticize does not necessarily imply " to find fault ", but the word is often taken to mean the simple expression of an objection against prejudice, or a disapproval.

The objection could be made that the simulation does not have to run in " real time ".

Another objection to virtue theory is that the school does not focus on what sorts of actions are morally permitted and which ones are not, but rather on what sort of qualities someone ought to foster in order to become a good person.

The primary objection advanced against Bible codes is that information theory does not prohibit " noise " from appearing to be sometimes meaningful.

One immediate objection to the theory was that the total insolation during a year does not vary at all during the precessional cycle, only its seasonal distribution.

Besides adopting some terms, such as that of natural agents, from Say, Senior introduced the word abstinence which, though obviously not free from objection, is for some purposes useful to express the conduct of the capitalist which is remunerated by interest ; but in defining cost of production as the sum of labor and abstinence necessary to production he does not seem to see that an amount of labor and an amount of abstinence are disparate, and do not admit of reduction to a common quantitative standard.

Ἀξιό < sup > πλ </ sup > is an abbreviation for Axiopolis in the manuscripts of De Aedificiis .</ ref > However, even if correct, Russu's objection does not affect the interpretation of the axi-element as meaning " black ".

Unlike many of his conservative followers, Bryan was not a strict biblical literalist, and had no objection to " evolution before man but for the fact that a concession as to the truth of evolution up to man furnishes our opponents with an argument which they are quick to use, namely, if evolution accounts for all the species up to man, does it not raise a presumption in behalf of evolution to include man?

A common objection to the merit system is that it does not provide a comprehensive method of judging a candidate's abilities or predicting their future performance.

Regnery later wrote that it was initially organized that way, " not because I had any ideological objection to profits, but because, as it seemed to me then, and does still, in matters of excellence the market is a poor judge.

" The fact that " alef " and "' ayin " are confounded in this interpretation does not constitute an objection ; for assonance and not etymology is the decisive factor in the biblical name-legends, and of this class are both the first and the second chapter.

As Hugh J. McCann puts it, “ Perhaps the most serious objection against it is that there does not appear to be any way God could come by such knowledge.

Cordelia does not want this, at first because she believes the Groosalugg to be more demon-like, but this objection falls when Cordelia meets him and sees that he is, in fact, very handsome and nearly human.

Expecting that other states would soon do the same, Walmart reversed its policy and announced that it would begin to stock the drug nationwide, while at the same time maintaining its conscientious objection policy, allowing any Walmart pharmacy employee who does not feel comfortable dispensing a prescription to refer customers to another pharmacy.

One objection which would soon take on ever greater importance, was that critical thought must adopt the standpoint of the oppressed, to which Adorno replied that negative dialectics was concerned " with the dissolution of standpoint thinking itself.

Though she was eighteen months Tatiana's senior, Olga had no objection when Tatiana decided to take charge of a situation.

If an attorney failed to " take an exception " immediately after the court's ruling on the objection, he waived his client's right to appeal the issue.

Codrington dismissed Ibrahim's objection, replying that he had come to give orders, not to take them.

" Thus it was held that notwithstanding the right to an appeal, if the situation disclosed be such that to take the ordinary course by appeal would of itself subject the complainant to irreparable loss, the writ should issue notwithstanding no objection was made below ; that the matter of judicial courtesy should yield to substantial personal rights of litigants, such as a sacrifice of their liberty.

He rarely used Biblical arguments alone ( to him they were a secondary objection to the idea of Earth's motion ) and over time he came to focus on scientific arguments, but he did take Biblical arguments seriously.

Turing suggests that Lovelace's objection can be reduced to the assertion that computers " can never take us by surprise " and argues that, to the contrary, computers could still surprise humans, in particular where the consequences of different facts are not immediately recognizable.

The Dennys and Ev Karr arrive to find Ralph under arrest and Scott attempting to take equal blame, over Ralph's objection.

He was asked by the Polish Brethren to take up the position of a champion of conscientious objection against the Byelorussian Symon Budny and the Greek Unitarian Jacobus Palaeologus after Gregory Pauli of Brzeziny had become indisposed, and thereby gained some respect among the Poles.

Her absence at giving out the ruling itself was no legal objection, but if the request of the FPIM had been honored, and deliberations had been reopened, it would have been a requirement that she was present, or that the case had been tried anew by a different set of judges, in which case any ruling would take place well after the deal with BNP Paribas was finalized.

On 12 January 2011, minutes after Hariri posed for pictures with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, the opposition parties resigned from the cabinet, as an objection for the inability of the government to take detrimental decisions, causing his unity government to collapse.

Conversely, raising an objection does not necessarily imply that the objector disagrees with the proposal itself ; he may simply believe it would be better to take a formal vote.

But due to changing environmental legislation and civil objection procedures, it would take 12 more years until the expansion project gets the green light.

* A public procession consisting of more than 30 persons can only take place if the Police Commissioner has been notified a week in advance and the Commissioner has notified the organizer that he has no objection.

By voice vote, with no objection, the House of Representatives passed a resolution noting that " Mrs. Spellman has been unable to take the oath of office due to a decapacitating illness " and that her position should be declared vacant.