There was a fairer system in the Second World War with more impartial local tribunals and more effort to find them alternative work, though some
absolutists rejected the move.
For the Quakers, who had been instrumental in getting the conscience clause added to the Military Service Act, the decision to be "
absolutist" or "non-combatant" wasn't as clear-cut as might be imagined.
Initially, the market
absolutists shrugged off the global slump, arguing that it would be minor or short.
Absolutists, Situationists, Subjectivists, and Exceptionists
Not a Quaker himself, but a deep admirer, Kennedy's initial interest in the Friends stemmed from his earlier work on the No-Conscription Fellowship and a consequent encounter with the
absolutists of the Friends Service Committee.
There are also students who are
absolutists believing that this "Enlightenment realism" is destructively relativistic.
Most Muslims are not
absolutists at all, and are in fact deeply opposed to the
absolutists in their midst.
If her study is basically a depouillement, it receives meaningful structure from her underlying distinction between "
absolutists" and "constitutionalists," and from organized attention to less lasting currents such as those of the sixteenth-century politiques and the eighteenth-century nobiliaires.
The grander argument of this book is more difficult to prove, given that the number of translations reached its peak in 1589-1590 and Parmelee's own admission that, "evidence of the direct influence of French
absolutists on English writers is slight" (117).
His main focus, however, is on controversies that divided Jansenists and constitutionalists on the one hand, from Jesuits and
absolutists on the other.
She says, "For
absolutists, the `right-to-die' issue is as indisputable as abortion: Killing oneself, or helping another to die, is murder; although the first act is humanly unpunishable, the second ought to be penalized to the full extent of the law, which, in most states, requires that the perpetrator receive assistance in dying by electrocution, suffocation, or lethal injection....
In so doing he provoked not a theoretical war (the ship money case, Burgess insists, |was not a clash of
absolutists and constitutionalists') but doubts about the certainty of the law and its capacity to settle disputes.
In the left-right/ North-South debate that permeates today's ideological exchanges, cultural
absolutists specifically argue that culture is of more value than the internationally-accepted (but Western in origin) principle of human rights.
In the central part of WEST, Chapters 4 to 8, Earman sets out his reasons for thinking that relationists who accept both R1 and R2 will have tremendous difficulties in meeting the challenges of
absolutists. Though Earman may occasionally exaggerate the problems facing relationists, his general assessment of the standard debate is reasonably fair.
Anti-torture
absolutists often point out that we were able to beat Hitler without resorting to torture.
