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...estially in simulated prisons. They obeyed orders. So did all the hideous genocidal criminals in history. The Director Weir asks: should God be allo... ...ir asks: should God be allowed to be immoral or should he be bound by morality and ethics? Should his decisions and actions be constrained by an ov... ...out the non-existence of his (or another's) self-identity is true or false? Dan's criminal responsibility crucially depends on the answers to thes... ...ants and representations. The payment should be either in kind (as in more ancient justice systems) or in cash (as in modern Western civilization).... ...on). The product called "Titanic" took away the lives of its end-users. Our "gut justice" tells us that the owner should have paid in kind. Fault... ...uality of life" considerations in the straitjacket of the formalism of distributive justice - known as human-welfare ecology or emancipatory envir... ...ging (Iraq) - be exempted from international law and the remit of the International Criminal Court. The (American) protagonist in the movie gets sli...

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...s, as they said (Hagiga 13), “heads of chapters are given only to a chief justice, and to one whose heart is worried,” and “Maase Beresheet is not t... ...tion to conceal it from the ignorant, since they believed that wisdom and ethics go hand in hand. Hence, the first sages hid the wisdom in writing, ... ...way of the earth.” From that path stems the philosophy of morality called “ethics,” which is based on an empirical knowledge, through examination of ... ...or ThE good of ThE WorKEr Many are mistaken and compare our holy Torah to ethics. But that has come to them because they have never tasted religion ... ...in of the First Temple, since they wished to extol wealth and power above justice, as other nations. But because the Torah prohibits it, they denied ... ... will come to its full correction. ThE f oUr A TTribUTES, mEr Cy, Tr UTh, jUSTiCE, And pEACE, in ThE individUAl And ThE CollECTivE Once we know full... ..., for whom it is the life and the length of their days. It is seemingly a criminal offence, as about such our sages said in Midrash Rabba, Beresheet,...

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... in the creation of man—the four basic properties of nature: mercy—Hesed, justice—Tzedek, truth—Emet, and peace—Shalom. Eretz Israel—Land of Israel—Y... ...This is similar to a scenario when a strong individual joins a society of criminals, imitating their behavior, so that after being admitted into 55... ...l, unwillingness to receive anything for oneself. As it is written in The Ethics of the Fathers, 95: “A Chassid, the merciful righteous one, says, ‘... ...Aba and in Yesod de Ima, which are collectively called “righteousness and justice.” 2 5 8 THE ZOHAR (In Hebrew, the words Tzedek—... ...hma can be received only in “precious garments,” called righteousness and justice, that is, only with these intentions. The above excerpt speaks of ...

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... And shouldn’t the absence of suffering be deemed as happiness? IntheTalmud’s, Ethics of the Fathers,itsays:"Against your will you are born, against y... ...sitseems thatlifeismoredifficultthandeathitself;therefore,itisno surprise that Ethics of the Fathers states, "Against your will do you live." Nature c... ...e divided into several types: status symbols (wealth, fame), natural (family), criminal (pleasures experienced at the expense of others’ lives), illeg... ...reator. Only in such cases when people can live by their faith in the ultimate justice of the Creator’s Rule, despite great trials and suffering, will...

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... me? Is it different in a person who has committed a crime? A: In an ordinary criminal, the evil inclination appears as a nega- tive desire that is n... ...re is no hap- piness in high technology, or the development of our culture and ethics. Drugs and other accessories for pleasure produce a desire to a... ...they could punish me and even kill me. They set their own rules and their own justice, meaning their own understanding of good and evil. In fact, th...

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...ey are rendered "invisible", "subhuman", and unprotected by laws, institutions, and ethics. This process of distancing and dehumanization I call "e... ...on to this smorgasbord is the affirmation of freedom as the most fundamental value. Justice, equality, and welfare cannot be sustained without it. T... ...ercise self-defense by organizing voluntarily to suppress malfeasance and put away criminals. Yet, is this not the very quiddity of the oppressive ... ...archists believe in changing society through violence. Are these anarcho-terrorists criminals or freedom fighters? If they are opposed by voluntary ... ...eply ingrained sense of what is fair and what is just. The judgement of fairness or justice (namely, the appraisal of the extent of compliance with ... ...over ... As long as people co-operate legally and for legal ends, without breaching ethics and without discriminating against deserving non-members ... ...dox Jews, narcissists and altruists, unscrupulous and moral, educated and ignorant, criminals and law-abiding citizens. Jews, in other words, are li... ...e bodies of dead people - we ought not to eat them. VIII. Arguments from Religious Ethics The major monotheistic religions are curiously mute when ... ...d methods. Both consumers and producers who felt offended were given access to the Justice Department and to the FTC or the right to sue in a feder...

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.............................................................. 222 MORALS OR ETHICS ARE NOT SET IN STONE--MORAL RELATIVISM ...................... 224 S... ... ------------------------ --- ―Ethics is often the word used to indicate what we have been doing lately. ... ...People talk about ‗ethical standards‘ but they are talking about their own ethics. There are few universal ethical or legal standards. Treason agains... ... about assumptions that we cannot prove. There is a God. There is no God. Justice requires liberty. Justice requires equality. But liberty and equali... ... women and prostitute them in the West as true sex slaves? Money! Selfish criminals can play to the tastes of selfish men who seek the power and sexu... ...he mafia in Italy, the yakuza in Japan, or the Latin American drug lords--criminals in business are the rule rather than the exception. Prostitution... ...‗eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth‘ is nearly always the standard of justice. But both concepts of justice rest on non-provable starting points—... ... ended until the mid-Nineteenth Century. By modern standards of Christian justice the methods of accusation and punishment were unethical and inhuman... ...ed his congressional seat under a cloud of felony charges for corruption, criminal conspiracy and money laundering. He was upfront about his own stro...

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...184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AND SEEKING EXPERTISE 189 SEMANTICS 191 CONFLICTSINVALUES 199 MORALS OR ETHICS ARE NOT SET IN STONE 201 MORAL RELATIVISM 201 SELF VERSUS SOCIETY 203 VALUE QUESTIONS206 THE WELFARE STATE 207 The Welfare State is Moral from a self-centered point of view 208 From a self centered point of view it is ...

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...n the same podium to debate our beliefs, my realistic belief in the basic psychological drives that motivate us and her idealistic concepts of ethics... ...ht that we inherited our basic drive for pleasure. Studies indicate that a great deal of our behavior can be attributed to our heredity,. Some crimin... ...idual can go on to satisfy the ‗truly human needs‘ or as Maslow called them ‗meta needs.‘ ―The meta needs include beauty, order, unity, justic... ...ur genes.‖ —―Lee, spoken like a true California lawyer. Didn‘t you tell me that winning a court case was more important than seeing justic... ...f your fellow attorneys?‖ —―True, Wreck. Because of our notion that each attorney must fight his case to his utmost ability and that justic... ...erty, but South Africa is Africa‘s richest country. On the other hand its poverty rate has doubled in the last ten years. But they have their crimin... ...he success of children of divorced parents, the single parent syndrome. There is more chance for poor performance in school, for drug use and crimin... ...ry. We must study how to live. We must understand how our minds and bodies work. That means studying physiology and nutrition, psychology and ethics... ... tend to have close family relationships. Is this what makes people happy? Americans with their high financial expectations, their strong work ethics...

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...ey are rendered "invisible", "subhuman", and unprotected by laws, institutions, and ethics. This process of distancing and dehumanization I call "e... ...on to this smorgasbord is the affirmation of freedom as the most fundamental value. Justice, equality, and welfare cannot be sustained without it. T... ...ercise self-defense by organizing voluntarily to suppress malfeasance and put away criminals. Yet, is this not the very quiddity of the oppressive ... ...archists believe in changing society through violence. Are these anarcho-terrorists criminals or freedom fighters? If they are opposed by voluntary ... ...eply ingrained sense of what is fair and what is just. The judgement of fairness or justice (namely, the appraisal of the extent of compliance with ... ...over ... As long as people co-operate legally and for legal ends, without breaching ethics and without discriminating against deserving non-members ... ...dox Jews, narcissists and altruists, unscrupulous and moral, educated and ignorant, criminals and law-abiding citizens. Jews, in other words, are li... ...e bodies of dead people - we ought not to eat them. VIII. Arguments from Religious Ethics The major monotheistic religions are curiously mute when ... ...d methods. Both consumers and producers who felt offended were given access to the Justice Department and to the FTC or the right to sue in a feder...

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......................................................................... 44 JUSTICE ...................................................................... ......................................................................... 49 ETHICS ....................................................................... ...tion. Fewer babies will result in less expenditure for juvenile and adult criminal court expense, fewer jail inmates -- at a savings of $25,000 per y... ... are even somewhat effective. The percentage of drug abusers, alcoholics, criminals and poor learners should be much less than today. Therefore the p... ...ould be able to--whether it is an equal right to vote or a right to equal justice in a law court, or even the right to participate in sports. It has ... ...e is usually a financial cost for political ideas-- for voting, for court justice, for education, for just about everything. If you want the right to... ... a prisoner. It may be used on potential terrorists, murderers, and other criminals. It replaces the lie detector that is not always accurate. Your ... ... thing the Soviets did. We are ecstatic with our copying of a great idea. ETHICS “You in the West are so imbued with the idea that you can do... ...gh car crashes and shooting or fighting than through comedy or lessons in ethics. Look at the most popular TV show ever. „Mash.‟ It showed the resul...

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...XIV. The Pricing of Options XV. The Fabric of Economic Trust XVI. The Distributive Justice of the Market XVII. Notes on the Economics of Game Theor... ...e fruits of illicit pursuits. The laundering of tax-evaded money or the proceeds of criminal activities, mainly drugs, is effected through regular b... ...he Varieties of Corruption Corruption and Transparency Straf - Corruption in CEE The Criminality of Transition The Kleptocracies of the East The Enron... ...oing the promotional touting. Unfortunately for him, the SEC and the Department of Justice made an example of his case, and he went to jail." Q. T... ... engage in violations of the federal securities laws. This is a civil remedy, not a criminal law sanction. Under well-settled case law, the purpose ... ...osecution of securities fraud. In other words, make them part of the Department of Justice to make criminal, not just civil cases, against the frau... ...l: (1) register public accounting firms; (2) establish "auditing, quality control, ethics, independence, and other standards relating to the prepar... ... live or practice. To remain a CPA, each must abide by the standards of conduct and ethics of the AICPA, including a requirement for continuing pro...

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...ly gravitate towards like minded non-conformists and outcasts. The organization is criminalized. Drug dealing, bank robbing and other manner of org... ...nalized. Drug dealing, bank robbing and other manner of organized and contumacious criminality become integral extensions of the struggle. A crimin... ... and based on the family and the village, not on abstract national allegiances. If criminal abuses ended, the Ottoman state might yet have invented... ...ing a trend three centuries old) lent an air of inevitable invincibility and divine justice to the whole endeavour. It is interesting to mention tha... ... goal was now a federated Yugoslavia with Croat autonomy within it. There is poetic justice in that his death - at the hand of a Montenegrin deputy ... ...versus Christianity and fascism and nationalism versus liberalism. It is hard to do justice to these topics in the Procrustean bed of weekly columns... ... coherent) worldview, with consistent internal logic, and rules of right and wrong (ethics). Yet, these rarely conform to the way most people percei...

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........................................................ 34 MENTAL ILLNESS AND CRIMINALITY ................................................................ ...th our wastes in the air, in the ground and in the seas. We live in fear of criminals, terrorists and warlords—warlords who have gained power throug... ...t to look at how the United Colonies seem to have perverted the concepts of justice and democracy which have led them away from any utopian goals. I ... ... —“How would you start your crusade?” —“Well, it’s about the three Es—ethics, economics and education. Certainly voluntary population control ... ...ndard of living because of the people’s education and economic means. Their ethics, relative to having children, have often been based on a self-cen... ...d mental needs of their offspring.” —“This is where you are getting into ethics and values. What other ideas do you have in these areas?” 27 ... ...ybe these are more likely than doing it voluntarily.” MENT AL ILLNESS AND CRIMINALITY —“Chet, it is more than just reducing population. It’s abo... ...anything seems to be possible. While the oft quoted remark of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (10) that “you don’t have the right to yell...

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...ocietal values of Confucius. What should be the principles of fairness and justice for their society. Should there be the economic equality that Marx... ... ―We emphasize honesty as essential in a society based on social values. Criminal behavior is severely punished. Organized crime that is so eviden... ...sty through both punishment and through social disapproval. An apprehended criminal fears the shunning of the society. We guard against the anti-soc... ... can be worked to think in terms of sympathy for the plaintiff rather than justice and can award an undeserving victim millions in your legal lotter... ... trump the facts. And for lawyers it is about winning and making money—not justice. Do you have such legal problems in Kino?‖ KINO’S LEGAL APPROACH... ... and punishment that are most effective in making citizens comply with the ethics of the society, but rather the inward compulsion to do right and t... ... a number of our elected leaders had either severe moral failings or actual criminal behavior. As I remember 36 of the legislators at that time had b... ... people generally still believe in the gods of their parents and flaunt the ethics of the religions they ostensibly follow. We want to keep things d...

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...society is still a mushed stew of Lion-Hyena- Wild-Dog-Cheetah values, morals, ethics, and lifestyle. We have not changed how we live for millions o... ... power. The advantages of deception, terror, gangsterism: the cooperation of criminals for criminal purposes… we only cooperate as a gang of killer... ...e of determining just how we should raise our young. This is a double crime. Criminal for completely neglecting the issue in the first place, and c... ... Prohibition… and it was a resounding failure. What’s more: it increased the criminal elements in society, and magnified the gangsters of Prohibitio... ... It is the origin and cause of all greed. It corrupts all our values, morals, ethics, and humaneness. We have been taking the concept of abstract o... ...ic or moral, or rationale they wish to live by… without ever having to study ethics or morals, or be trained, or tested for their logic, their hone... ...lp, no encouragement and no love. Nothing positive. Is that what you call a justice system that is fair and balanced? Armed soldiers, armed police... ...ied to cooperate with each other, there would be no need for even the idea of justice. The assumption of the Law is that everybody is a liar. And... ...t: whether they like it or not. But the fallacy of this system is the idea of justice. Which is completely apart from the idea of legality. Justic...

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... and causes. It was a dream in the throes of becoming, a vision of liberty, peace, justice, prosperity, and progress. Its system, though far from f... ...e in Iraq. In all these cases, the perpetrators were removed from the scene to face justice - or, more often, a travesty thereof - back home. Ameri... ...e America's fierce resistance to and indefatigable obstruction of the International Criminal Court. Opportunistic multilateralism notwithstanding,... ...mbing. It not only refuses to subject its soldiers to the jurisdiction of the World Criminal Court - but also its facilities to the inspectors of th... ...inguish which matter is expanding national interests under the banner of 'enforcing justice on behalf of Heaven' and which is propagating their ideo... ... noncombatants their main tactic - while regular armies rarely do. Such conduct is criminal and deplorable, whoever the perpetrator. But what about... ... possibly, leading to a chaotic situation of "might is right"? In other words, when ethics and expedience conflict with legality - which should prev... ...lzer in "Just and Unjust Wars" (1977), Barrie Paskins and Michael Dockrill in "The Ethics of War" (1979), Richard Norman in "Ethics, Killing, and W...

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...e Disruptive Engine - Innovation XI. Governments and Growth XII. The Distributive Justice of the Market XIII. The Myth of the Earnings Yield XIV.... ...and narratives offer an organizing principle, a sense of order, predictability, and justice. They postulate an inexorable drive toward greater welf... ...ding he follows the prescriptions. His belief in the existence of linear order and justice administered by some supreme, transcendental principle i... ...munications to implement its own technology, the DSL broadband phone line. Barring criminal behavior, there is little that oligopolies can do to de... ...ities. A succession of societies and cultures discriminated against the ignorant, criminals, atheists, females, homosexuals, members of ethnic, re... ...t of envy by imitating it. In extreme cases, they strive to get rich quick through criminal scams, or corruption. They endeavor to out-smart the sy... ...bines the Anti-Corruption and Fraud Investigations Unit and the Office of Business Ethics and Integrity. The Bank helps countries to fight corrupti... ...e tacit, way was to legitimize leisure time. Whereas the Jewish and Protestant work ethics condemned idleness in the past – they now started encoura... ...t", that the Red Cross felt compelled to draw up a ten point mandatory NGO code of ethics. A code of conduct was adopted in 1995. But the phenomeno...

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...Public Genomics, and my wife Lauren Dame, as- sociate director of the Genome Ethics, Law and Policy Center, provided cru- cial support to my work with... ...ncy. It does so for several reasons—reasons of both practicality and natural justice. (Elsewhere in his writings, Jefferson expands on this point at g... ...n another slice of postmortem copyright pro- tection. They worried about its justice; given that we all learn from and build on the past, do we have a... ...een so one-sided makes it hard to resist exaggerating their impact. In 1918, Justice Brandeis confidently claimed that “[t]he general rule of law is, t... ...ustries come asking for additional or new rights, for new penalties, for the criminalization of certain types of technology, we should take into accou... ...ctors obtained. The state re- fused to step in to aid the movie companies by criminalizing the new tech- nology. There were equally powerful companies... ...cutting becomes a crime, wire cutters are classed with lock picks and other “criminals’ tools,” and the people who make wire cutters are told their bu... ...ly proj- ects. “We are stunned that RealNetworks has adopted the tactics and ethics of a hacker to break into the iPod, and we are investigating the i... ...rs who offer their work on the In- ternet? Do the lines it draws fit with our ethics, our traditions of free speech and commentary, our aesthetic judgm...

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...h as Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia. Model citizens in these hellish environments were the criminal and the sadist. Rather than look to the ou... ...ity defence (NGRI – Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity)? A person is held not responsible for his criminal actions if s/he cannot tell right from wro... ...ons if s/he cannot tell right from wrong ("lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality (wrongfulness) of his conduct" – dimini... ...n a (usually coherent) worldview, with consistent internal logic, and rules of right and wrong (ethics). Yet, these rarely conform to the way most p... ...rving. They are being constantly and consistently punished for who they once were. It is poetic justice in more than one way. They are being treated... ...enal code" are both promulgated by the narcissist. Neediness and dependence on the source of all justice meted – the narcissist – are thus guarantee...

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...napped. "Why not?" Brand asked. "Because you're a scum-bag. You found your ethics in a toilet." "Is your mind made up?" Brand asked. Walter lo... ...won't be able to prove anything. Besides, the other candidates, including the Ethics Committee, will be putting so much pressure on him he'll only l... ...for re-election? And further, will you be facing any 112 J.Cross/Artemis criminal charges for what you did?" "As for what I did, sometimes goo... ...re only a few of us left who have any honor; the rest are no more than common criminals…Disgraziade!" Mastronini said, and spit at the floor. "They d... ...kuza..." "Kang banged his fist on the table. "You engage in discussions with criminals!" It was obvious now that General Kang was the most influent... ...responsible for this abomination?" "We will hunt him, until we bring him to justice," Stern said without hesitation. "Besides, what country would ...