Many today hold to “criteria” over principles. Whereas principles are fixed and unbending, criteria are approximations. For example, the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes are indications of God’s will, but they are not principles that can be directly applied to every situation. Even some more conservatives believe that some actions—for example, abortion—is absolutely wrong. Yet they allow for the possibility that the demands of faith and love in a particular situation might override the absolute.