Your words

'So I tell you this, that for every unfounded word people utter they will answer on Judgement Day,

since it is by your words you will be justified, and by your words condemned.' Mat.12, 36-37

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Autonomy

'We should no longer assume that all patients are always capable of asserting and defending their right in an autonomous way. Rather, we should recognize that they may be in need of care, and temporarily (and in some cases permanently) unable to assert and defend their rights.'

Manning R.C., "A care approach". In: Kuhse, H. & P. Singer (eds), A companion to bioethics. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 104. 3rd edition.

Normalizing practices

'(...) the mere discussion of issues as issues tends to normalize the practices in question'.

Battin, M.P. 2003. 'Bioethics. In: Frey, R.G. & C. Wellman, A companion to applied ethics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 295-312.

Inconsistencies

‘the value aspects [of problems ] are very complex and […] it is extremely difficult to express all these values consistently when one is doing this informally. Indeed, one the major reasons to build a formal value model is to identify possible inconsistenties and insure that they are not included in the model.'

Keeney, R.L. 1992, Value-focused thinking. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 150

Subsidiarity

‘a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving de latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to coordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good’.

John Paul II

Achievement

'Better one hand full of repose than two hands full of achievements to chase after the wind.'

Ecclesiastes 4: 6