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...Consensus Ethics...
...good bishop now "startles" us with. And I fail to see how his conclusion that "love is the fulfillment of the law" differs in any way from situation ethics-as propounded, for example, by Dr. Joseph Fletcher in his book Situation Ethics: the New Morality, except that the word "consensus" is used...
Before guidelines can be drawn, deferment policy must be determined; and on that crucial point there is probably still no agreement within the Commission. Two days of intensive meetings which ended vesterday may have produced a consensus, but, as happened earlier in the Commission's 6-month existence, some member could re-open discussion simply by stating he was dissatisfied with the policy...
...latest flare-up at Berkeley fizzled out last week, smothered by a consensus of confidence in Chancellor Roger W. Heyns. Yet no one was belittling the seriousness of the five-day student strike, even if it had been triggered by nonstudents over the trivial issue of Navy recruiters on campus. Some of these agitators, said Heyns, "are out to destroy the university," while some others "want to control it." "It's a kind of guerrilla warfare," said Governor Pat Brown. "Their whole attitude is conspiratorial. They don't want answers to problems-they just want problems...
...they embody a substantially correct view of the contents of natural moral law." Some moral law is virtually self-evident and thus constant through history-for example, respect for life and property. But there has also been change and development in man's understanding of morality. The modern consensus establishes as sinful certain behavior patterns, such as slavery and polygamy, that previous ages accepted as moral. Now, Simons believes, a consensus is developing outside the church that permits abortions when a mother's life is in danger, birth control and even sterilization for parents whose family welfare would...