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Responding to increasing global anxiety over the ethics education of military personnel, this volume illustrates the depth, rigour and critical acuity of Professional Military Ethics Education (PMEE). While primarily focused on US military academies, the volume will resonate with those responsible for education in military academies across the globe.

The abortion controversy is shown to turn on the question of whether & when the fetus is a full-fledged human being. Though no new sci'fic facts or theories can settle the issue, the issue is about a matter of fact; it is not a semantic or purely value issue, nor one settleable by some decision (eg, one based on pragmatic grounds). Liberals & conservatives systematically misunderstand each other because neither can understand how the other can believe what they say. The arguments for each side are equally strong & equally weak, for they are essentially the same argument, one whose conclusions are accepted, not because of logic, but because of a person's response to the pertinent facts. The logic of the dispute is analogous to the ante-bellum dispute over the humanity of blacks, the diff being that with the blacks, but not the fetus, there is a common natural human response to the facts. Lacking that common natural response the issue is unsettleable, for there is no fact to discover. This situation undercuts the justifiability of certain restrictive state actions. Moderate positions which neither affirm nor deny the humanity of the fetus but instead accord it some limited moral status between that of persons & things (comparable, for example, to dogs), are unstable; the principles underlying these positions have not been & perhaps cannot be developed. The whole issue is quite independent of any special religious or pol'al beliefs. AA.