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Later on, its scope was increased, until thousands of acts and omissions are now made criminal by statute. But that explains why the fact that something is a sin doesn't necessarily mean that it is a crime. The law is artificial and not founded on any general attempt to prohibit what is unethical, but simply to prevent what is immediately dangerous to life, limb and property."
But when has it been illegal for a member of the Medical profession to perform an operation, even with small chance of success, within an accepted area for such operation? There has been no evidence adduced that any crime or act of even unethical conduct was committed." That brought Chris and Matthews to their feet. Wilson was relaxed again, looking as if he'd swallowed a whole cage of canaries.
All these, however, are crude and primitive stages in the development of music. The fear of passion suggested the first rule, and the fear of monotony the second; all depth of feeling and any excess thereof were regarded as "unethical."
Such conceptions as Prakṛiti and the Guṇas colour most of the post-Vedic religious literature. Their working may be plainly traced in the Mahâbhârata, Manu and the Purâṇas, and the Tantras identify with Prakṛiti the goddesses whose worship they teach. The unethical character of the Sâṅkhya enabled it to form the strangest alliances with aboriginal beliefs.
"And it is of the utmost importance that you should know what is said?" "Yes." "And you do not intend to use your knowledge of this conversation, when gained, for an illegal or unethical purpose?" "I do not. On the contrary, if I am aware of what is being planned, I can prevent others from doing something illegal and unethical."
Bagley to tell you the details of her employer's business, which is unethical." "How much have you heard?" demanded Fisher crossly. "Enough, at least to know what you've been hammering at." "Then you know that I've as much as said that there was some suspicion attached." "Suspicion of what?" "Well, why aren't you in school?" "That's Mr. Maxwell's business."
It is not ideal if it is unethical, unhygienic, or unæsthetic. In all these ways, morality as commonly and legally and ecclesiastically understood may fall very far short of the ideal sexual relationships.
Yet the practice is considered unethical by the Hopi themselves and is being discontinued. We know that this weird, pagan Snake Dance was performed with deadly earnestness when white men first penetrated the forbidding wastelands that surround the Hopi.
Cutty, the most honest man alive, had set his foot upon an unethical bypath and now found himself among nettles. To keep Johnny Two-Hawks prisoner in that lofty apartment while he hunted for the drums of jeopardy! Hadn't he said he had seen emeralds he would steal with half a chance? Cutty, playing at this sort of game, his conscience biting whichever way he turned!
Until now the preliminaries had been carried on with a due regard for the unwritten but rigid code of underworld etiquette. From neither side had there issued a single unethical word. The detectives had been punctilious to avoid ruffling the sensibilities of any and all. All the same, the prisoner chose of a sudden to turn nasty.
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