Sentences with phrase «to take human life»

Although that embryo may only contain four or five cells, some religious leaders say that destroying it is the equivalent of taking a human life.

The penalties for taking a human life, even unintentionally, are very severe.

There was discussion of how killer robots could undermine the fundamental principle of human dignity because they could take human life without respecting it.

Yet when does common stealing these call for a sentence that equals or exceeds that of taking a human life?

Permitting machines to take a human life on the battlefield or in policing, border control, and other circumstances is a moral line that should never be crossed.

They more properly belong to the second and increasingly familiar type of church statement — those that regard abortion as legitimate in certain circumstances, but largely reject the practice because it involves taking a human life.

Now, none other than the controversial academic Stanley Fish claims that doctors and nurses who don't wish to take human life as part of their medical work should just get over it.

Phist, your examples, while you feel they are «extreme» do you really place taking a human life equal to what you wear, or what you eat?

I have mixed feelings on the death penalty issue, but one thing is clear: The same law that tells us «thou shalt not kill» prescribes the death penalty for those who take human life (as well as certain other offenses under Mosaic Law).

(Crandall does not address the point, but it is difficult to see that bringing a doctor in for consultation would change the nature of the decision about taking human life.)

He said recent steps by his government were to prevent violence between farmers and herders and not to give anybody licence to unlawfully take a human life.

But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life.

The story never really concerns itself with a concrete resolution, and instead presents you with a framework of surreal drudgery and a grave look at the psychosis inevitable to anybody who can so flippantly take human lives.

He fights only using his limbs as he dislikes weapons that can easily take human lives.

Not until the rise of Christianity did the ancient world discountenance infanticide; likewise, it was Christianity «that ended the scandal of taking human life for sport,» (H. G. Wood, Christianity and Civilization, p. 11.

Unlike pragmatic characters Electra and the Punisher in the series, Murdock refuses to take human life in order to make New York City safer.

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots fundamentally objects to permitting machines to take a human life on the battlefield or in policing, border control, and other circumstances.

Among the large number of official church statements on abortion issued since the early 1960s, there are three main alternatives: (1) total opposition to abortion, (2) an openness to abortion's legitimacy because the fetus is not a human being, and (3) a mediating position which regards abortion as legitimate in certain exceptional circumstances, but largely rejects the practice because it involves taking a human life.

The newspaper also reported that like other heroes, Morris had never talked much about his military service, «out of respect for the gravity of taking a human life.»

Instead, taking a human life is depicted as the difficult and devastating thing that it is.

The issue involves the existence and extent of «conscience rights» for medical professionals and facilities opposed to participating in interventions that take human life.

On the question of taking a human life, for example, the church has always distinguished between killing and murder, murder being the morally condemned act, and killing the physical act which is not always wrong.

They took human life and tied it in a knot and pulled it tight - and tighter - and tighter - and tighter - until there was nothing left to pull.

Is it EVER justifiable to take human life?

They wanted the unspeakable pleasure of taking human life; they were willing to sacrifice their own lives for it.

@Eric If as you say these are only weapons with no other purpose than to take human life, the statistics would prove that... but as I showed you in my blog the stats do nt infact prove that... they prove the opposite.

On the surface, the issue of executing drug dealers and forced abortions aren't related, but they both have one element in common: They happen because the government has the power of taking human life.

Giving the government this kind of power to take human life has serious implications for life.

If one goes so far as to take a human life, even then that person has not taken everything from the person who has been killed.

I can overlook any sin with the exception of that of taking a human life.

As to moral considerations, pro — lifers believe that taking a human life is wrong.

There have been previous ones mostly boat accidents that have taken human lives.

She said that it's going to be coming out in the very near future that many of the catastrophes that have taken human lives in the State of New York have been the product of guns coming over the border from Vermont,» said State Sen. Tim Kennedy, a Democrat from Buffalo.

Your quest of intuition, discoveries and struggles, will be filled with death and drama, while your attempt to stem the irrepressible thirst that constantly drives you to take human lives.

Now, despite all of story - enhancing collectibles, perfectly balanced puzzles, and fast combat, I have to tell you that once Lara's taken a human life for the first time, it's like she has to finish the whole bag of chips.

Yuichi Higurashi is fascinated by weapons: hand guns, grenades, rifles, bullets — anything that can take human life.

Human rights groups said, «how dare you take a human life to protect an animal.»

US Air Force General Paul Selva stated, «I don't think it's reasonable for us to put robots in charge of whether or not we take a human life.»

Campaign to Stop Killer Robots coordinator Mary Wareham addressed the Munich AI panel, highlighting the multiple ethical, legal, operational, moral, proliferation, technical and other challenges raised by allowing machines to take a human life on the battlefield or in policing, border control, and other circumstances.