It may need to be done on occasion» there are such things as just wars, after all, and the state's obligation to defend the social order may necessitate an execution» but Pennington's sort of blithe assumption of justice done in
the death of another human being makes me tremble.
God would not be God if he presided, as he does, over
the death of every human being ever to walk the earth while he himself refused to bear the burden that his creatures must bear, for God would not be love.
If this is the case, it follows that there can be no soul apart from a body, and that in particular
the death of a human being involves the disintegration of the whole organism, including its organizing principle, the soul.
The chatter around a poll released Wednesday by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Religion News Service will likely focus on the findings highlighted in their news release: 82 % of Americans surveyed believe that bin Laden distorted the teachings of Islam to suit his own purposes; 65 % believe the al Qaeda leader is rotting in hell; and 62 % think it is wrong to celebrate
the death of another human being.
You're being awfully glib about your complicity in
the death of human beings — and not potential humans either... they have all the traits of being human.
«Watching a peaceful
death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of the million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.»
That human dignity could be preserved by
the death of human beings is a paradox of the highest order.
It's an awful thing, to be unsurprised and unphased about
the death of another human being, famous or otherwise, and Asif Kapadia makes us choke on those (lack of) sentiments with his scorching documentary
It's an awful thing, to be unsurprised and unphased about
the death of another human being, famous or otherwise, and Asif Kapadia makes us choke on those (lack of) sentiments with his scorching documentary Amy.
The process of grieving for a pet is no different than mourning
the death of a human being.
Their reasoning is that «Skeldon has vigorously worked to prevent horrendous pit bull maulings resulting in serious injuries or
death of human beings, their domesticated pets and livestock.»
Idem (5) A person commits culpable homicide when he causes
the death of a human being,
Homicide 222 (1) A person commits homicide when, directly or indirectly, by any means, he causes
the death of a human being.
Murder in commission of offences 230 Culpable homicide is murder where a person causes
the death of a human being while committing or attempting to commit high treason or treason or an offence mentioned in section 52 (sabotage), 75 (piratical acts), 76 (hijacking an aircraft), 144 or subsection 145 (1) or sections 146 to 148 (escape or rescue from prison or lawful custody), section 270 (assaulting a peace officer), section 271 (sexual assault), 272 (sexual assault with a weapon, threats to a third party or causing bodily harm), 273 (aggravated sexual assault), 279 (kidnapping and forcible confinement), 279.1 (hostage taking), 343 (robbery), 348 (breaking and entering) or 433 or 434 (arson), whether or not the person means to cause death to any human being and whether or not he knows that death is likely to be caused to any human being, if
Did Shore's participation in the road rage behavior that led to her own death mitigate the responsibility that Ghazi holds for causing
the death of another human being?
The first
death of a human being at the hands of a robot, albeit not one with artificial intelligence of any sort, occurred in 1979 when a robotic arm at a Ford factory struck and killed a worker.
Not exact matches
Social psychologists built terror - management theory on Becker's insights: «The basic motivation for
human behavior
is our biological need to control our basic anxiety, to deny the terror
of death.»
To state the obvious:
Death is a natural part
of human life.
«This
is a topic that
's been researched to
death by the field
of industrial and organizational psychology,» says Peter Cappelli, management professor and director
of the center for
human resources at the Wharton School
of the University
of Pennsylvania.
Governments in the U.S. and Israel
are already trying to sidestep responsibility for the damage existing drone strikes
are doing, so there needs to
be clear rules for who
is ultimately responsible for anyone's
death if
humans are indeed going to
be pulled out
of the loop, which seems inevitable.
Andrew Batholomaeus, a consultant toxicologist at Australia's University
of Canberra and the University
of Queensland, states that «the potential
human health consequences
of discouraging the use
of pyriproxyfen in drinking water storage and other mosquito - reduction programs
is catastrophic with potential
deaths and serious disease from otherwise avoidable malaria, dengue and other mosquito - borne diseases numbered in at least the hundreds
of thousands.»
To ignore this advice and plunk ourselves down longer and more often than the
human body
was designed for
is to tempt both a host
of unpleasant health effects and early
death.
Death and suffering
is an inescapable element
of the
human condition.
This
is the first time an autonomous vehicle operating in self - driving mode has resulted in a
human death, and that has huge implications for the future
of AVs and their use on roads.
The result
is millions
of preventable
deaths from infectious and non-communicable diseases globally, reduced economic growth, and limited
human development.
The outcome
of a war will not only lead to a sharp escalation in
human casualties and displaced families, who have yet to come to terms with the
death and destruction from the conflicts in Iraq, Yemen and Syria, but the region itself may no longer
be the landscape it currently
is as most countries in the area will struggle to recuperate from the large - scale devastation caused by a war.
Death obsession is a wail of despair that strives to overcome the enveloping darkness by imposing human control over d
Death obsession
is a wail
of despair that strives to overcome the enveloping darkness by imposing
human control over
deathdeath.
Death obsession
is corroding our society's belief in the intrinsic value and inherent dignity
of human life.
Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would
be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every
human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense
of gods as we understand them After many centuries
of religious domination, enforced through pain
of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.
Religion
is something
humans use to help comfort them in the thought
of death.
For example, advocates
of autonomy might defend euthanasia as
death with dignity, while most Christian teaching judges euthanasia and physician - assisted suicide to
be actions beneath and against
human dignity.
The fear
of death is so strong in
humans that they need to comfort themselves with the idiotic notion
of some all powerful
being.
It
's a tribute to the
human spirit in a time
of war that potentially had no consequences other than
death for the harboring family.
To
be on the threshold
of death and then to come back may
be the most significant single event after birth that a
human being can experience.
It has
been estimated that in less than the past 100 years, governments under the banner
of communism have caused the
death of somewhere between 40,472,000 to 259,432,000
human lives.
Religion
is a big part
of the problem there; Gods
are human constructs, made to keep people down; Reward after
death
Conclusion: Christianity and the other contemporary religions
are the result
of human evolution away from the «dark side» although all contemporary religions need to rewrite their rule books eliminating all
of the «
death to all infidels» and «we
are the only salvation» mumbo jumbo.
Bridgestone Tires: The Beaver in «Sigh
of Relief» What could possibly
be more entertaining than future road kill bonding with a
human over their respective near -
death experiences.
The archbishop also asserted that laws
are based upon certain principles: «the pursuit
of the common good through respect for the natural law, the dignity
of the
human person, the inviolability
of innocent life from conception to natural
death, the sanctity
of marriage, justice for the poor, protection
of minors, and so on.»
So it
is god changes the DNA
of microbes to become resistant to antibiotics, causing many needless
deaths and painful afflictions upon the
human race, directs the mud to flow to kill a hundred plus children at a school in Wales..
If that
is true
of the gospel's most counterintuitive claim — that it
is through the unjust
death of a just man that the world
is redeemed — it
is also true
of his claim to
be the truth that
is the way to authentic
human life, and to eternal life.
The horrific denouement
of an ideology that required breaching the boundary
of shame
was the shamelessness
of death camps where
human beings were robbed
of dignity, stripped
of privacy, deprived, therefore,
of an elemental freedom
of the body in life and
of the respect we accord the bodies
of the dead after life
is no more.
Such conversions
are likely to grow more frequent as self - described «lovers
of death» such as ISIS force the French to explain and defend a civilization firmly based, for all its inconsistencies, excesses, and aberrations, on the reverent love
of human life demanded by the doctrine
of the Incarnation.
I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may
be involved with... on the face
of death if you
are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you
were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you
were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you
are... In the face
of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life
of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what
is the meaning
of family...
It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women as less than
human, stoning people to
death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands
of INNOCENT people, and these clowns
are worried about their precious Koran
being burned by a nutjob.
The difference between the
death spiral
of the Abrahamic religions and all the other religions that have
been discarded throuought
human history
is that humanity has no need for a replacement «belief gap filler» this time.
Did Jesus Christ really come to South America and
was seen in the
human flesh, hundreds
of years after his
death and
was sitting at the right hand
of God.
Seeing
human beings on a daily basis making the transition from life to
death, often in an acute context, lends it self to the constant recognition
of the transience
of life.
the answer to that
is the incarnation itself, that Christ would take upon himself humanity and the pains and struggles
of the
human condition, including the pains
of death.
All I
am saying
is that religions
were created by
humans as a means
of explanation
of life after
death.