Sentences with phrase «human suffering rather»

With the victims of lung cancer we have the good sense to respond at the point of human suffering rather than the point of moral judgment.

Not exact matches

He paid the price of a bitter death, rather than weaken the intimacy of his relationship with the human lot, with all its suffering and failure.

But because such a theology begins with the human quest for the divine rather than with God's own self - manifestation, it is susceptible to the misdirection which I think Percy's later work suffers from.

With human exceptionalism cast aside, our new prime directive is to eliminate suffering, and eliminating the sufferer is now advocated in high places as a moral good rather than a pernicious harm.

Rather than attempting to have animals classified as «persons,» which Professor Carlin says would «narrow the gap between humans and the lower animals,» the Christian animal rights movement wants them to be recognized as the sentient beings they are, demonstrably capable of physical and emotional suffering.

Second, slavery is not «wrong» merely because it is illegal or because it is «socially unacceptable»; rather, for the same reasons that r@pe and murder are inherently «wrong,» slavery is inherently wrong because it causes demonstrable harm and suffering in the deprivation of a fundamental human right to basic liberty and bodily autonomy.

This is a powerful and touching myth, not least because it gives a rather tidy answer to the perennial human problem of suffering and evil.

Overlooking the bombast, Balentine, while acknowledging that Elihu's discourse «increases, rather than diminishes,» the tensions of the book, still finds merit in Elihu's explanation of Job's suffering: the real answer to suffering is human pride.

But if we decide that it is acceptable to treat humans worse than we treat animals, it should not surprise us if many people at the grassroots level decide that as along as they have to die like a dog, they would rather not suffer the fate of an abandoned stray.

From her head to her toes (or ankles, rather), women can experience the upside of carrying around a tiny human in her belly without having to suffer too much.

As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.

From the beginning there have been people who have suspected that rather than being a new species, this is actually a modern human that suffered from a disease known as microcephaly.

Human nature is such that we'd rather suffer than abolish institutions to which we have become accustomed.

And since we are greedy enough to skip over the fact that we are over-populated, we may as well try to limit the amount of unwanted animals that will suffer because we want to cover every square inch with humans rather than taking care of living things that are already here.

It is, in fact, a painting that any professional painter must dread to face, showing us as it does how «the skin of a defeated artist is scored, peeled away, and his body openly violated to reveal the anatomy of pictorial creation, rather than the details of human suffering.»

However welcome the recent announcement that a team of scientists based at Newcastle University, has grown a section of human liver using stem cells from umbilical cords, rather than from the more controversial source of embryonic stem cells, and whatever the eventual promise or potential of harvesting organs for transplantation from genetically modified pigs, the benefits of either of these two pioneering techniques to currently dying / suffering patients, remain both elusive and distant.