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In a CBC interview, a noted environmentalist said that if he were forced to choose between the lives of the last breeding pair of whales and those of a boatload of men who were out to kill them, he would sacrifice the men to save the whales. He cited the war-crimes trials after World War II for the principle that immoral laws should be resisted to protect "the higher good." This position exemplifies which one of the following?


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Expression

A mathematical phrase that can include numbers, variables, and operation symbols but does not have an equality sign.

Rationalize

The process of eliminating radicals from the denominator of a fraction or complex numbers from the denominator.

Denominator

The lower segment of a fraction representing the number of parts into which the total is split.

Rationalize

A method in mathematics used to eliminate the radical (such as a square root) from the denominator of a fraction.

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