"Robin Cook has made the establishment of the International Criminal Court a cornerstone of his foreign policy with an ethical dimension, " he said.

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"With rumours that long overdue arms control legislation will once again be missing from the new parliamentary timetable, the establishment of the ICC would go some way to making the ethical dimension a reality, " he said.

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The next step, Pearce believes, is to add an ethical dimension to the struggle by highlighting the fact that those intitially affected will be almost entirely located in the developing world where infrastructure and resources are already at their most over-stretched.

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For example: An Internet-jacked kettle that alerts us when the national power grid is overloaded (a prototype has been developed by U.K. engineer Chris Adams) doesn't prevent us from boiling yet another cup of tea, but it does add an extra ethical dimension to that choice.

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