Their reaction to hearing about alternative sexual practices in the abstract is most often amusement, sometimes squickage, rarely moral outrage.

In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

The transition from republic to Principate brought a new and potent factor into the legal picture of the Roman state, the princeps or emperor.