Thou Shalt not Kill, Unless it is not a Human: Target Dehumanization May Influence Decision Difficulty and Response Patterns for Moral Dilemmas

Thou shalt not kill.

Section 241(b) and s. 14 of the Criminal Code unjustifiably infringe s. 7 of the Charter and are of no force or effect to the extent that they prohibit physicianassisted death for a competent adult person who (1) clearly consents to the termination of life and (2) has a grievous and irremediable medical condition (including an illness, disease or disability) that causes enduring suffering that ...

Doctor, thou shalt not kill.

Who Shalt Not Kill ? Individual

Recent findings suggest that exerting executive control influences responses to moral dilemmas. In our study, subjects judged how morally appropriate it would be for them to kill one person to save others. They made these judgments in 24 dilemmas that systematically varied physical directness of killing, personal risk to the subject, inevitability of the death, and intentionality of the action....

Thou shalt versus thou shalt not: a meta-synthesis of GPs' attitudes to clinical practice guidelines.

BACKGROUND GPs' adherence to clinical practice guidelines is variable. Barriers to guideline implementation have been identified but qualitative studies have not been synthesised to explore what underpins these attitudes. AIM To explore and synthesise qualitative research on GPs' attitudes to and experiences with clinical practice guidelines. DESIGN OF STUDY Systematic review and meta-synth...

Thou Shalt Not Diversify: Why ‘two of Every Sort’?

This paper presents a study of the intertemporal propagation of distributional properties of phenotypes in general polygenic multisex inheritance models with sexand timedependent heritabilities. It further analyzes the implications of these models under heavy-tailedness of traits’ initial distributions. Our results suggest the optimality of a flexible asexual/binarymating system. Switching betw...