Sentences with phrase «see mere human»

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

Not exact matches

However, it is abundantly clear that the human race is as it is (this is no more than mere tautology), and so we can see that what may originally seem improbable is in fact the best explanation of a given circu.mstance.

I really don't see what he gains from being indifferent and idiotic about the issue, but for the mere fact he can't make up his mind whether humans are a cause behind global climate changes makes me think this guy isn't fit to run the country.

Wrongly, current thinkers see the human body as just an instrument or a mere tool for some function.

One need merely approach it with an open mind to see that its authors were no mere robots, but human beings endowed with their own particular insights, virtues, customs, faith, and — as with all people — their own misconceptions and misunderstandings.

We may, if you wish, allow that he was sometimes imperfectly reported, and it is certain that we have a very inadequate «coverage» of the most important life the world has ever seen, but the more one studies these brief and incomplete records, the more unthinkable it becomes that they should be mere human fabrications.

Therefore, let us see what happens if we regard religion as the outcome of a long preparation, as a new dimension of the evolutionary process, and not as heaven - sent or as a mere projection of the human mind.

Our deepest longing is to see the day when the triumphant, sovereign lordship of you our loving God will no longer be a mere hope clung to desperately by faith, but a manifest reality in all human affairs.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

lack of seeing the importance of human beings as images of God and so easily discarding them as merely material things, products of mere chance.

What he opposes most stridently in this book is not religious doubt itself or attempts to understand religion as a human construct or a biological phenomenon, but rather what he sees as a very artificial and incomplete view of human nature and its purpose: the very presumption that religion can be explained away as unnecessary and that such materialistic perspectives could be definitive or anywhere near ultimately satisfactory for beings who are obviously designed to crave so much more than mere birth, death, and extinction.

There are costs to the consciences of executives who come to see workers not as human persons, indeed fellow workers, but as abstract figures in computer printouts — mere mathematical entities subject to cool - eyed managerial restructuring.

To his mind, our age is simply the age of technology, which is to say that our reasoning is simply a narrow and calculative rationalism that sees the world about us not as the home in which we dwell, where we might keep ourselves near to being's mystery and respond to it; rather, the world for us now is mere mechanism, as well as a «standing reserve» of material resources awaiting exploitation in the projects of the human will.

If only the low - aiming script by Simon Kinberg (xXx: State of the Union, X-Men 3), rumored to have undergone several rewrites at the hands of others, saw their characters as living, breathing human beings instead of mere comedic devices in the singular big joke the film is built on, and perhaps we would have seen even more fireworks in the romance department.

It is surely not mere coincidence that a cluster of serious diet - related diseases in humans are also seen in cats and dogs.

Under the law, they are seen as mere objects for human use.

Plato (who wrote artfully while hating art) saw time as the nature of being — a mere human's falling off from the eternal.

How preposterous it is that we mere humans think that we can change weather patterns on this earth, given that it has been around for some 3.5 billion years, a span which has seen innumerable weather extremes come and go, yet the old girl is still here.

The mere mention of Auschwitz to those familiar with the Holocaust evokes surreal images of endless cold barracks, heavily shrouded in human smoke, stretching as far as the eye can see.