I consider voting to be an inherently violent and immoral act.
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" Many have also called upon authorities to fine the condom company for this "immoral act.
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Syria considered the use of chemical weapons "an immoral act, condemned everywhere, at any time, under any circumstance," SANA reported.
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SANA reported that Syria considers the use of chemical weapons "an immoral act, condemned everywhere, at any time, under any circumstance."
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The reason I wouldn't carry a gun is because it is an immoral act walking around imagining you're going to kill someone.
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"I am very frustrated that a highly talented musician like Eric was the victim of such an unthinkable, immoral act," Mr. Gilad wrote.
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"The reason I wouldn't carry a gun is because it is an immoral act walking around imagining you're going to kill someone," she told me.
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" Berlin-based DJ Scuba was philosophical about the shooting, writing, "Seeking to impose your morality on others is an immoral act in of itself #OrlandoShooting.
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The jury determined Mr. McLean knew he was committing an immoral act, even if the brutality of the murder reflected a diseased mind, she said.
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Killing an adult chimpanzee would be, for him, a more immoral act than killing a 1-year-old child, because the chimpanzee has greater cognitive capacities.
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Lumping "paid sexual services" into the same category as guns and drugs, she says, is only furthering the idea that paying for sex is an immoral act.
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It refers to when a priest uses the pretext of the sacrament of confession to commit an immoral act with a penitent or seeks to commit one.
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We're told the only basis for firing him would be the "morals clause," and the show takes the position getting a DUI is not an immoral act.
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Even if graduate transfers moving from mid-majors to power schools was some sort of immoral act, the truth is that it doesn't happen a whole lot.
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Solicitation is a separate crime under canon law and refers to when a priest uses the pretext of the sacrament of confession to commit an immoral act with a penitent.
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The percentage of white evangelical Protestants who said that a politician who commits an immoral act in their personal life could still behave ethically shot up from 25 to 298 percent.
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In 22019, just 36 percent of Republicans believed someone "who commits an immoral act in their personal life can still behave ethically ... in their public office," according to a PRRI Brookings poll.
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If he does not understand that what he did was wrong, then I fear what he could do next and how a foolish or immoral act could put our country in jeopardy.
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But the GOP strategy has been to stick to the usual Trump script: whatever bad, corrupt or immoral act he stands accused of -- and there are a lot at this point -- didn't happen.
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McCarrick was also found guilty of the separate crime of solicitation, which refers to when a priest uses the pretext of the sacrament of confession to commit an immoral act with a penitent.
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"Having a baby is an immoral act — overpopulation, climate change, rise of neofascism," Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) laments to her husband, Richard (Paul Giamatti), near the start of Tamara Jenkins' new comedy-drama, Private Life.
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It's an explanation of why Calautti, a PhD student in cinema studies who typically considers voting "an inherently violent and immoral act," is nevertheless going to pull the lever for the billionaire in November.
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In 2011, the Public Religion Research Institute asked voters if an elected official who commits an immoral act in their personal life can still behave ethically and fulfill their duties in their public and professional life.
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According to a recent PRRI/Brookings poll, 72% of white evangelicals believe an elected official who commits an immoral act in their personal life can still behave ethically and fulfill their duties in their public and professional lives.
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"(Damascus) condemns the reliance of the Joint Investigative Mechanism on the word of criminals who committed this immoral act in Khan Sheikhoun and those of suspect witnesses, as well as so-called open sources," a statement by the foreign ministry official said.
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"A regime that takes lives as a punitive or deterrent measure is committing an immoral act that constitutes an intolerable violation of human rights," the rights group B'Tselem, which is often criticized by the Israeli government, said in a statement on Thursday.
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As recently as 2011, only 30 percent of white evangelicals believed "an elected official who commits an immoral act in their personal life can still behave ethically and fulfill their duties in their public and professional life," according to a Public Religion Research Institute poll.
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The outlet reported Gilad also commented on the case, writing about his frustration that Abramovitz had been "the victim of such an unthinkable, immoral act that delayed his progress and advancement as an up-and-coming young musician and delayed his embarking on a most promising career."
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One measure of the so-called "Trump effect": in October, seventy-two per cent of white evangelicals agreed that an elected official who "commits an immoral act" in private could nevertheless behave ethically in public; five years earlier, only thirty per cent agreed with the statement.
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Meanwhile, former Georgia running back Todd Gurley once accepted a couple thousand dollars' worth of cash for signing autographs—and was promptly suspended by the NCAA for four games, a punishment that provoked hysterical state lawmakers into criminalizing major American universities acting like drug cartels protecting their turf the egregious, immoral act of giving college athletes money.
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This is an immoral act of an immoral man, one who saw absolutely no flaw in using the anguish of children and families — people he viewed as deficient and less-than, "not their best" — as pawns in a political fight to force Congress to fund his ridiculous hate symbol: a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
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Keya was arrested for immoral act on 22 December 2011. She was released on 23 December 2011 after giving fine.
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As part of a Pecaruan ritual, the man was forced to marry the animal. The ceremony was thought to cleanse the village of the immoral act of bestiality. The cow was drowned in the ocean, while Alit was symbolically drowned as well.
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When presented with a specific immoral act that a specific person committed, people tend to say that that person is morally responsible for their actions, even if they were determined (that is, people also give compatibilist answers). The neuroscience of free will investigates various experiments that might shed light on free will.
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In noting the historical unlawfulness of polygamy in the United States, the Court found polygamy to be an immoral act of the type contemplated by the Mann Act's prohibitions. Finally, the Court found that there is no viable defense to the Mann Act by virtue of the religious beliefs that motivate the practice of polygamy.
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Set in a village in the 1890s, a woman (Viau) whose husband is away invites men into her home. This action offends the conservative villagers. One of the men who was invited in is found dead and the woman is suspected and judged for her immoral act rather than the crime of murder she may have committed.
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Mulingzi hated villainy so he often roamed the jianghu in his younger days as a youxia to help the poor and punish the wicked. In his later years, Mulingzi still retained his fiery temper and strong aversion towards evil. Whenever he saw any Kongtong member engaging in an immoral act, he would severely punish that person. He was especially strict towards his own apprentices.
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Among the reasons for Sukarno's rejection was the false accusation that Subekti played poker, viewed as an immoral act unbefitting a judge.Sebastian Pompe, The Indonesian Supreme Court, pg. 82. Suryadi fell into conflict with the Indonesian Judges Association (of which he'd been a founding member) as well as parliament; he resigned under President Suharto, after which parliament promptly appointed Subekti as chief justice.Sebastian Pompe, The Indonesian Supreme Court, pg. 86.
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Crime is an immoral act that is injurious to society. This was more of a psychological orientation than Lombroso's physical-type anthropology. Garofalo's law of adaption followed the biological principle of Charles Darwin in terms of adaption and the elimination of those unable to adapt in a kind of social natural selection. Consequently, he suggested # Death for those whose criminal acts grew out of a permanent psychological anomaly, rendering them incapable of social life.
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Nickelodeon representatives were notified of the incident by Bumpass, but did not release any immediate comments or actions regarding the matter. On January 25, 2016, ten days after the incident, Nickelodeon representatives confirmed to TMZ that Bumpass would remain on SpongeBob SquarePants for the foreseeable future. The representatives alleged that the network's morals clause for the show did not consider DUI charges to be an immoral act, and thus Bumpass was not legally subject to termination.
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On his way, he encounters Chandri. He is mesmerised by her beauty and when he wakes up in the middle of the night, he finds himself lying on Chandri's lap. Chandri rushes home, finds that Narayanappa's body has started to rot, gets it cremated in secrecy, and leaves Durvasapura. Praneshacharya is left in a piquant situation on whether he has to reveal his immoral act to the people of the village or keep quiet about it.
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Creating a less-than-average life would become an immoral act. Furthermore, in a world where everyone was experiencing very bad lives that were not worth living, adding more people whose lives were also not worth living, but were less unpleasant than the lives of those who already existed, would raise the average, and appear to be a moral duty. The hazards of average utilitarianism are potentially avoided if it is applied more pragmatically. For instance, the practical application of rule utilitarianism (or else two-level utilitarianism) may temper the aforementioned undesirable conclusions.
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Hagop Sarkissian, Amita Chatterjee, Felipe De Brigard, Joshua Knobe, Shaun Nichols, Smita Sirker (forthcoming)."Is belief in free will a cultural universal?" Mind & Language However, the debate about whether people naturally have compatibilist or incompatibilist intuitions has not come out overwhelmingly in favor of one view or the other, finding evidence for both views. For instance, when people are presented with abstract cases that ask if a person could be morally responsible for an immoral act when they could not have done otherwise, people tend to say no, or give incompatibilist answers.
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The issue of suicide can be difficult to address since the Buddha never stated what he thought about this topic. In Buddhism, suicide can be seen as an immoral act or it can be justified under certain circumstances. "The topic of suicide has been chosen not only for its intrinsic factual and historical interest but because it spotlights certain key issues in the field of Buddhist ethics and doctrine".Wiltshire, Martin G. (1983) "The 'Suicide' Problem in the Pali Canon," Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 6, pp.
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One of the most prominent members of the vice clique was Edward Stonewall Jackson McAllister, a Portland attorney, Progressive activist, leader in the state Democratic Party, and friend of William Simon U'Ren and C.E.S. Wood. During his trial, The Morning Oregonian would report that he was charged with committing an "immoral act." According to the written opinion in State v. McAllister, 67 Or 480, 136 P 354, McAllister was charged with committing sodomy with 30 year old "boy victim" Roy Kadel (1882-1934) on , in McAllister's law office in downtown Portland.
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Young girls informally play the game also in refugee camps in the Darfur region. Rights to broadcast the 2011 Women's World Cup in the country were bought by Al Jazeera. In 2012, the Islamic Fiqh Council in Sudan issued another fatwa saying that it is forbidden for the country to create a women's soccer team, deeming it an immoral act, in response to a question from FIFA regarding the feasibility of creating a team. The fatwa suggested that football is a men's sport and women should not participate in it, because it challenges the differences between men and women.
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An alternate viewpoint is that since moral wrongs are already in place in the situation, moving to another track constitutes a participation in the moral wrong, making one partially responsible for the death when otherwise no one would be responsible. An opponent of action may also point to the incommensurability of human lives. Under some interpretations of moral obligation, simply being present in this situation and being able to influence its outcome constitutes an obligation to participate. If this is the case, then deciding to do nothing would be considered an immoral act if one values five lives more than one.
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A team of steel erectors has been redeployed to a steel mill construction site in a small town. The head of the squad, Nikolay Pasechnik, is a shockworker of Socialist Labour and reputed to be a darling of the women and a quick wit. Welder Katerina Petrashen', working on the construction site as well, is to be considered a pretty girl of easy virtue: she smokes (considered as an immoral act), is not a member of the Komsomol, likes party-coloured dresses and behaves provocatively. After Nikolay and Katerina got to know each other, they develop a mutual interest.
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These moral emotions are said to be linked to moral development because they are evidence and reflective of an individual's set of moral values, which must have undergone through the process of internalization in the first place (Kochanska & Thompson, 1997). The manifestation of these moral emotions can occur at two separate timings: either before or after the execution of a moral or immoral act. A moral emotion that precedes an action is referred to as an anticipatory emotion, and a moral emotion that follows an action is referred to as a consequential emotion (Tangney, Stuewig, & Mashek, 2007). The primary emotions consistently linked with moral development are guilt, shame, empathy, and sympathy.
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Benjamin Onderdonk and other presbyters conducted an examination of Carey, which ultimately found him fit for ordination, which was celebrated in 1843. The dispute did not end there, and a number of letters were published accusing Carey and ultimately Onderdonk of being overly sympathetic to Roman Catholicism."A letter to a Parishioner relative to the Recent Ordination of Mr. Arthur Carey" This controversy spread beyond the diocese, and at least one other diocese adopted a resolution condemning Onderdonk.The Novelties which Disturb Our Peace, Project Canterbury: As this controversy continued, charges were presented to the House of Bishops alleging that Onderdonk had committed an "immoral act" with a Mrs.
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Meti was appointed as Excise Minister, but after a CD was published showing him engaging in a sexual act, he resigned on 7 December 2016. On 11 December 2016, a woman in a televised interview accused Meti of having sought sexual favours in return for a transfer, but said she was not the woman in the sex video. On 12 December, RTI activist Rajashekar Mulali complained to the police of receiving death threats from the minister and his followers for saying he had a sex CD on him. Meti described it as a political conspiracy to malign him, claiming he was not involved in any immoral act with any woman, and challenged Mulali to release the tape.
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He started to be placed in locations farther away from Porto, in an attempt to push him away from the Synagogue and the Community. In 1937, Barros Basto was adjudicated by the Disciplinary Board of the Army and was dismissed from the institution for allegedly participating in circumcision ceremonies (in Hebrew, brit milah) of the students of the Israelite Theological Institute of Porto, which the Council considered "immoral" act, which is actually a fundamental practice for the Jewish people. A year later, in 1938, Barros Basto saw the inauguration of his great project, the Kadoorie Synagogue in Porto. Its construction was started in 1929 when Barros Basto was able to gather funds to buy land and build.
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The tractate consists of five chapters. The number of mishnayot is according to the standard numbering; however, different versions split up the individual mishnayot, or combine them, and the chapter breaks may vary, as well. Chapter One (nine mishnayot) deals with the prohibition of trade with idolaters around their festival (so as not to be complicit in the festivity), and the items that are forbidden to be sold to idolaters (which is basically any item that the idolater is likely to offer in an idolatrous service or commit an immoral act with). Thus, the main commandment explored in the chapter is lifnei iver, because a Jew who helps a gentile to worship idols is facilitating sin.
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The Church considers other sexual acts such as homosexuality and masturbation, as well as the use of contraceptives, to be sinful. Religions such as Judaism consider restraining from sex to be an immoral act, whereas Islam looks as sex as an act that should be responsibly acted upon through marriage. Sexual pleasure is emphasized within marriage when care and love is present.. However, homosexuality is often strictly demonized within these religions, with some believing it should be punishable by death. Hinduism is a religion that has a strong binding to sexual pleasure, or kama; however, this pleasure is thought to be a responsibility of marriage, and is to be avoided until the age of 25, in favor of virtuous living and intellectual, financial and spiritual development.
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In Manusmriti 11.56,«Neglecting the Veda, reviling the Veda, bearing false witness, slaying a friend, and eating of forbidden and unfit food,—these six are equal to ‘wine-drinking.’—(56)»Verse 11.56 if a Hindu forgets, rejects or criticizes his/her Dharma (duty) or Veda that they believe in, it is a sin according to Hinduism. It is said to be equivalent to committing one of the five grave sins or the mahāpātaka«Brāhmaṇa-slaying, wine-drinking, theft, intercourse with the Preceptor’s wife,—are called the ‘heinous offences,’ as also association with these»Verse 11.54 in Hinduism. The concept of sin in Hinduism, which entails karma, is not regarded as a crime against God, but as an immoral act against the moral order (dharma) and therefore against oneself.
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To illustrate his point, he explains that colonisation relies on racist and xenophobic frameworks that dehumanise the targets of colonisation and justify their extreme and brutal mistreatment. Every time an immoral act perpetrated by colonisers onto the colonised is justified by racist, sexist, otherwise xenophobic, or capitalist motivations to subjugate a group of people, the colonising civilisation "acquires another dead weight, a universal regression takes place, a gangrene sets in, a centre of infection begins to spread." Césaire argues the result of this process is that "a poison [is] instilled into the veins of Europe and, slowly but surely, the continent proceeds toward savagery." Césaire is indicating that the racist and xenophobic justifications for colonisation—motivated by capitalist desires—ultimately result in the moral and cultural degradation of the colonising nation.
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Where the agent is given or promised a secret benefit by the third party to a contract that is intended to influence the agent in that party's favour, the gift is a bribe, and the principal has the choice of repudiating the contract or affirming it, and obtaining such relief as the court may think adequate.Davies v Donald 1923 CPD 295; Mangold Bros Ltd v Minnaar & Minnaar 1936 TPD 48 at 54; Plaaslike Boeredienste (Edms) Bpk v Chemfos Bpk 1986 (1) SA 819 (A); Extel Industrial (Ply) Ltd v Crown Mills (Pty) Ltd 1999 (2) SA 719 (SCA). The basis of the principal's right to resile is not fraud but the wrongful and immoral act of the third party (see Plaaslike Boeredienste (Edms) Bpk v Chemfos Bpk). See Van der Merwe & Van Huysteen (1987) 50 THRHR 78.
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In 1985, Rosenberg testified as an expert witness in a highly-publicized case in which the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had charged Sears Roebuck and Company with discrimination against their women employees. Rosenberg testified that the underrepresentation of women in Sears' sales force was "consistent with an absence of discrimination", due to differences in the career aspirations of men and women and other factors not attributable solely to Sears' business practices. In deciding the case in Sears' favor, Judge John A. Nordberg noted that Rosenberg's testimony helped him determine his verdict. This touched off a lengthy public debate that virtually isolated Professor Rosenberg from fellow feminists and historians, who accused her of turning her scholarship against the women's movement, with College of Staten Island professor Sandi Cooper terming Rosenberg's testimony an "immoral act" and fellow witness.
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Robert Merrihew Adams proposes what he calls a "modified divine command theory" American philosopher Robert Merrihew Adams proposes what he calls a "modified divine command theory". Adams presents the basic form of his theory by asserting that two statements are equivalent: #It is wrong to do X. #It is contrary to God's commands to do X. He proposes that God's commands precede moral truths and must be explained in terms of moral truths, not the other way around. Adams writes that his theory is an attempt to define what being ethically 'wrong' consists of and accepts that it is only useful to those within a Judeo-Christian context. In dealing with the criticism that a seemingly immoral act would be obligatory if God commanded it, he proposes that God does not command cruelty for its own sake.
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Yet, this view fails to take into account the very practical consequences of an explosion of innovation and commerce, necessitating soul-searching in all social participants. The Roman Catholic Church has always condemned usury, but in modern times, with the rise of capitalism, the previous assumptions about the very nature of money got challenged, and the Catholic Church had to update its understanding of what constitutes usury to also include the new reality. Thus, the Church refers, among other things, to the fact Mosaic Law doesn't ban all interest takingDeuteronomy 23:19–20 (proving interest-taking is not an inherently immoral act, same principle as with homicide), as well as the fact that we can now do more with money then just spend it. There are today many opportunities for investment, risk taking and commerce in general where just 200 years ago there were very few options.
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Lysander Spooner (1855) argues "that a man has a natural and absolute right—and if a natural and absolute, then necessarily a perpetual, right—of property, in the ideas, of which he is the discoverer or creator; that his right of property, in ideas, is intrinsically the same as, and stands on identically the same grounds with, his right of property in material things; that no distinction, of principle, exists between the two cases".The Law of Intellectual Property, Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 9 – Lysander Spooner Writer Ayn Rand argued in her book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal that the protection of intellectual property is essentially a moral issue. The belief is that the human mind itself is the source of wealth and survival and that all property at its base is intellectual property. To violate intellectual property is therefore no different morally than violating other property rights which compromises the very processes of survival and therefore constitutes an immoral act.
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