However, it's pretty much impossible to argue against driverless cars on the grounds that they put lawyers out of work because they don't maim enough innocents.
Case in point, I got whacked in the head with a sippy cup today, but it was the BPA free Born Free sippy cup so it didn't maim, just hurt for a second.
-LSB-...] it didn't maim, just hurt for a second.
Is
not it a maimed happiness — care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter to - morrow?
You keep holding the baby in the exact same position she was in when you first picked her up, because hey, even though your hands and arms are cramping up something fierce, you haven't maimed the baby by holding her like that, so keep doing it, right?
Not exact matches
The message to Syrians living in opposition - controlled areas, Hof added, would be the same as it always has been: «So long as we kill you,
maim you, terrorize you, and drive you from your homes with ordnance that is
not chemical in nature, that which is left of a hollowed - out West will do nothing to protect you.
If jurors favor the death penalty in some cases, then it shouldn't be shocking that they'd vote for it in a case where the defendant terrorized an entire city and killed and
maimed innocent civilians.
In Texas, it was
not a sense of guilt over paying money to watch majestic orca whales prevented from swimming freely at sea because they're forced to perform tricks in comparatively small enclosures at the behest of misguided trainers who could very well be
maimed when SeaWorld's whales are eventually driven insane by the hopelessness of their situation that kept audiences away earlier this year.
Assume
not everyone who dies in a catastrophe (an earthquake) desreved to die horribly or to be
maimed for life (Billy Graham likes to skirt around this with his ludicrous we're paying for the sins of our ancestors... even though Jesus for our sins).
Why is it ok for a lion to
maim and maul other lions but it's
not ok for humans to
maim and maul other humans?
Certainly we do
not want to insist that people mutilate their experiences in order to fit them into our tidy little readymade categories, like the wicked stepsisters
maiming their feet to fit into Cinderella's glass slipper.
They believe in a god who is going to kill /
maim and destroy most of humanity, because they can
not reconcile the concept of a god who is fully capable of accomplishing his will: to be the saviour of all humanity, because that would mean accepting the reconciliation of those they consider evil.
Time for believers, especially of the Christian sort, to get off this notion that
not believing in their deity is a mandate to rob, steal,
maim and kill.
Moreover, I believe in its truth; I consider the fact that it contains in its ranks a great number of sinners, of «the
maimed, and the halt, and the blind», to be evidence of this truths But this does
not cause me to believe that the eager multitude crying out today for guidance is in search of any Shepherd other than He who has already brought it bread.
Those bombings later became notorious
not so much for the people who were killed and
maimed in the attack but because the wrong men went to prison for the crime.
I can, of course, trick you into a choice by false promises, or intimidate you into it by threats; I can even apply physical force if you do
not do as I wish, and imprison,
maim, or kill you.
Let a child be physically
maimed for life by a birth injury, or spiritually
maimed by having to grow up in hunger and fear as in war - torn lands, or in squalor and crime as in our own slums; and then when the natural consequences appear,
not a few pious Christians will say that God in his inscrutable providence willed it to be this way.
If I was powerful enough to have created the universe, I wouldn't let a Sandy Hook man murder and
maim innocent little elementary school children.
Having said that, I do engage in maritial affairs, I steal like other CEOs of big corporations and Wall Street, I invest money in companies that make all kinds of weapons, some that
not only kill people in huge numbers, but
maims many more.
Yet, because I was given the deep honor of «giving a feast for those that can
not repay you — the poor, the blind, and the
maimed» — I paid my own way by working fulltime in information technology.
We read of Indonesian school girls targeted and beheaded simply because they were Christians; of Nigerian Christian men forced to chose between conversion to Islam or death, and of their wives and children forced to chose between conversion or perpetual slavery; of Pakistani Christians being burned alive in their homes; of Coptic Christians in Egypt and Chaldean Catholics in Iraq being fire - bombed,
maimed and killed» and when
not killed, hounded into exile; of «religious apartheid» and executions in Iran; and of unspeakable atrocities against Christians in the Sudan, the «scene of suffering as abhorrent as anywhere on any continent.»
That these guys
maim innocent kids and rip people's faces off with piano wire and fly planes into buildings... well... we can't deprive them of a few zzzzzzzzzzz's to see where the bombs are hidden, now can we?
But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the
maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they can
not repay you» (Luke 14:12 - 14).
The destroyer of the body may
not be able to kill the soul, but it can, and too often does, rape and
maim the soul.
The bible is VERY BIG on self reliance, and only using charity for those who really need it (widows, orphans and those so
maimed or handicapped that they can't work)
Mark 9:43 «It is better for you to enter into life
maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched — where their worm does
not die and the fire is
not quenched (this is repeated several times).»
God does
not punish, kill, torture, or
maim so that by some inscrutable aspect of His mysterious will, He might teach us a lesson.
has
not only caused incredible harm to the environment, but respiratory disease, cancer and other ills, so - called «accidents» that murder and
maim many people — and other domestic and wild animals, the poor things dismissed as «roadkill», and heinous wars.
Let the kill,
maim and torture each other to their hearts content, I couldn't give a jot!
Ernest Edwards, then sports editor of the Liverpool Daily Post and Liverpool Echo, had long talks with players of both teams and finally succeeded in convincing them that the object of the game was
not to
maim one another, but to score goals.
Might it
not be wiser and more loving to give up the economic and social benefits of cars, in order to have fewer dead and
maimed kids?
We would be able to protect millions if
not billions of people around the planet who have been ravaged
not just by the drug war, crimes and the vicious violence but also by terrorist groups funded largely by this trade who continue to
maim and kill around the planet too.»
«The Christian Elders wonder how any man of good conscience and good will could condemn a call for people to defend themselves yet, would
not condemn the aggressors who kill,
maim and destroy lives at will all over the country.
What the President did
not say and should have, was that the families of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi murdered by Saddam, and the hundreds and thousands of those Iraqi tortured,
maimed, and raped by Saddam, do
not regret the price of their freedom.
Under them hundreds of thousands of innocent Nigerians have been raped,
maimed, robbed and massacred by well - armed, well - funded and well - organised Fulani militias and herdsmen all over the country yet
not one of the perpetrators has been arrested or brought to justice simply because they are members of the President's ethnic group and they are his loyal foot - soldiers.
Firstly, the law relating to bereavement damages must be made fairer - it should
not be cheaper to kill than to
maim.
The petition did
not also state if Corporal Okorie was among those felled, when partisan thugs rained bullets at the Okrika All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign rally, killing a few, including some Police personnel; and
maiming many more.
Aregbesola said the statistics have shown the greater involvement of youths in various drug abuses, kidnappings,
maiming, insurgency, armed robbery, internet fraudulence among others, stressing that unless youths develop a mind set of being productive, resourceful and useful to their nation, the futuristic hopes embedded and reserved in them would
not be allowed to manifest.
However, Britain is
not immune from fatalities, with 1,422 children killed or
maimed in deprived areas in 2005, making road accidents the leading cause of death among ten to 25 - year - olds.
Members of Bergdahl's unit were killed or
maimed when they were sent to search for him,
not knowing that he had been preparing to walk away for weeks and had even dispatched personal effects to the U.S. before he walked off the forward base.
Owie, in a statement, said that the Buhari administration was
not walking the way of justice and equity; otherwise, it should immediately declare Fulani herdsmen, who have continued to kill and
maim innocent Nigerians in the north central and southern parts of Nigeria, as a terrorist group.
I've read about it concerning the fire that caused the 2009 death of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), laboratory assistant Sheharbano «Sheri» Sangji; concerning the 2010 explosion at Texas Tech University that
maimed graduate student Preston Brown; and concerning the fatal 2011 strangulation of Yale undergraduate Michele Dufault,
not to mention several other incidents.
Those alternatives have included an attempt, encouraged by panel member William Hurlbut of Stanford University, to create genetically
maimed embryos that, because they were incapable of developing, could
not technically be killed.
When people playing violent video games focus on killing and
maiming, they don't often remember the corporate brands they see along the way.
From staph infections to pneumonia, strep throat to urinary tract infections, we can't help but feel the bacteria around us are alien invaders, designed to hurt,
maim or kill us.
Heart attacks are preventable, and people who are dying or are
maimed by weak hearts do
not need to suffer.
Perhaps there'll be plenty to say about them when some oblivious pedestrian gets
maimed or killed by a flying Tour de France - wannabe on a roadie, if it hasn't happened already.
If you are
not experiencing something explode, crash, get shot, beat up,
maimed, or eaten, then you either got up and left, realizing you had something better to do like your taxes; or you have fallen into an epileptic fit as a result of one of the numerous explosions.
It's a truism of mainstream movies that it's OK for the hero to get beat up and injured, but
not permanently
maimed.
Black Panther
not only kills a fellow Wakandan — a family member — when he makes it painfully clear earlier in the movie that he has the technology to apprehend rather than
maim.