0 to accept or allow behaviour that is wrong: --
If the government is seen to condone violence, the bloodshed will never stop.
1 to ignore or accept behavior that some people consider wrong: --
But to concede this is not to condone every possible way in which survival probabilities might figure into organ allocation policy.
Cultures vary both on some biological dimensions and in the kinds of behaviors they value, forbid, and condone.
Providing the liberty to influence decisionmaking also does not condone the display of irritation or distaste at the supposed irresponsibility of the decision made.
In other words, we maintain that one can accept pluralism (different versions, partial truths), without thereby condoning all versions and any actions.
Whereas this conduct might be condoned for men, it did not suit decent women.
I am far from condoning any such measures; some of my family members suffered greatly during that time.
I'm not condoning what they do by any means.
But the fact that marriages across this divide are never condoned does not mean they do not occur.
