Sentences with phrase «about human appetite»

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When sexuality gets framed as something to repress or feed, something that needs to be reigned in or fanned into flame, we're seeing it as merely an appetite, a set of biological compulsions, and we've lost something fundamentally human about ourselves.

One hates to make old arguments, but if this education teaches (as other sections of the report make clear that is must) the familiar doctrines about how very wrong it is to impose any kind of normative standard on the many forms that peoples» desires can take, on what basis does it exclude pornography or the sexualization of young girls as legitimate forms of the varied human sexual appetite?

And a genuine appetite for spiritual love also disposes the human person to receive the fullness of the truth, including the truth about the nature of the human person and the normative content of the moral life.

Other films challenged audiences to confront the role of humans in wildlife extinction, invited viewers to think twice about our seemingly insatiable appetites for food and fuel, and encouraged the adoption of more sustainable ways of life.

And indeed, I'd love for you to understand that in our most natural state — no human would ever worry about this thing called appetite.

The confusion has given me an appetite for understanding more about human relationships in general, and I have decided to retrain as a psychotherapist here in the UK.

Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, the drama series «Westworld» is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin, exploring a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

But there are a host of unanswered questions about how the cresting of the centuries - long wave of growth in human numbers and appetites will play out.

He reacted strongly to my recent cautiously upbeat statement — made while conducting an onstage interview with a Brazilian ecologist — about prospects that the rain forests there could persist through this century even as human numbers and appetites crest.

I also asked him about my notion that the ongoing spike in human numbers and appetites is akin to a testosterone - fueled teenager going through puberty, and about what the species equivalent of adulthood might look like:

Well, yes, they are out of control, not caring other than superficially about themselves, satisfying their base appetites, stuffing their faces with food, their ears with junk music, their eyes with disgusting images and their brains with every kind of psychic sewage, they are lucky if they exhibit the lowest threshold of societal engagement or care for their fellow humans.