Sentences with phrase «take live human beings»

What brain imaging has made possible is being able to take live human beings — we call them normal human adults; in my lab they're MIT undergrads — put them in a scanner, and get them to do all kinds of things.

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Let these 20 quotes from Dr. Wayne Dyer motivate you to become more as a human being, tap into your limitless potential and take time out of your busy day to remember a man that transformed millions of lives in such a profound and powerful way.

The show, which takes place in a world in which animals are interchangeable with humans, tells the story of a talking horse, BoJack, who used to have a sitcom and now lives a pathetic life in Los Angeles.

With an estimated 46 million people globally living in slavery, human trafficking is being taken increasingly seriously in all countries with Britain home to an estimated 13,000 slaves and authorities identifying about 3,260 people victims in 2015.

«I think the self - driving car has the opportunity to not only improve productivity for the people in the car, which will be a huge economic boost for those people; Not only has the opportunity to save lives — over a million people die worldwide in road deaths today caused by human drivers, and I think we can take that very close to zero, which is very good for both human welfare and for economic productivity — it's a very serious dent in productivity when people get killed; And then all the ancillary industries that end up getting built out.»

Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.»

However, it takes faith to believe that humans were created fully formed and separate from all life.

So, according to your god and your * holy book *, humans are not living beings, and do not have a * soul *, until they take their first breath outside the womb.

Slippery slope arguments are often overdone, but the fact remains that virtually every argument for taking a human life in utero can be applied to a human life ex utero, including yours and mine.

Even if antebellum Evangelicals did not create the idea of a living Constitution, it could be said that by rejecting the continuity of human moral experience, they took a first necessary step towards it.

If we are right, then we lived our lives to their fullest in intellectual honesty, without the fear of some tyrant getting their hands on us after we die, and without having taken some stupid stand against the validity of sound science, or basic human rights.

However, it takes faith to believe that humans were created fully formed and seperate from all life.

Richard Dawkins merely states in unvarnished form doctrines that other scientific metaphysicians take for granted: In the beginning were the particles and the impersonal laws of physics; life evolved by a mindless, non-teleological process in which God played no part; and human beings are just another animal species.

Clearly there was a mistake in protocol with our troops but an apology should be adequate since no human life was taken.

And while I'm grateful believers and unbelievers can agree that the taking of innocent human life is wrong, without a basis for this knowledge, this is a position can turn on a dime.

The Church, however, has consistently taught over the centuries that the direct and intentional taking of innocent human life, as in abortion, is a grave and intrinsic evil.

'' wonder what would happen if there was this much moral and global outrage over the needless taking of human life.»

It is a very helpful guide to the formation of conscience with respect to questions raised in voting and other political activity if, in fidelity to the Church's teaching, one recognizes the «intrinsic evil» of taking innocent human life in abortion.

Instead work hard at your job, take care of aging parents, volunteer at a soup kitchen, donate to charities and the poor and continue to follow the proper rules of living as gracious and good human beings.

It is a way of faith that does not challenge the status quo, for it does not take the elements of human life seriously.

«Every human being however has a longing to know both the how and the why and if we begin to think that we can take one without the other we are denying ourselves some extraordinary insights into the Created Order in which we live.»

Of course the sequencing is not quite right, because the poem was written / inspired (take your pick) before science did its work.But the intuitive observer could see a clear evolution form plants to animals to human life, with continuities and differentiations.

They are worried that, by setting fully autonomous military drones loose upon the earth, we are valuing too cheaply the human lives that may be taken, primarily those taken by mistake.

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?

Should we take religion to be in some way an innate, instinctive, or otherwise inevitable aspect of human life?

[4] «cf. Meilaender, Gilbert, The Giving and Taking of Organs, First Things, March 2008, where he emphasises that humans are called to live their bodily life as a personal gift to others and that «presumed consent... does go a long way toward treating persons as handy repositories of interchangeable parts to others.»

History is indeed a moral order, in which judgements of the living God take effect; but this view can not be fully verified upon the plane of history as we know it, since there is an irreducible element of tragedy in human affairs.

For a guide I would suggest Benedict XVI, who understood deeply that the quest for the truth of God which takes a living form in monasticism must lie at the foundation of any social order that is finally human and any political order that is truly free (See here and here).

The Magi represent forever for all of us the wisdom that recognizes human life to be a journey taken in search of One who calls us beyond ourselves into faithful service.

24:17] «If anyone takes the life of a human being, he must be put to death»

But it is curious that nowhere does he mention or comment on Genesis 9:5 - 6, in which God Himself states that as part of the new (Noahide) covenant with humanity, human beings (and not God) have the responsibility of taking the life of a murderer.

Francis argues that, today, we understand that any taking of human life is contrary to the dignity of life, and therefore we can now say that it is contrary to the Gospel.

Faced with the absolute evil of the Nazi attack, first on Jewish life and ultimately on human life per se, Greenberg was tempted to take Richard Rubenstein's approach and concede that the God of Israel was indeed dead.

Taken for granted here is that family and friends share a conviction that living virtuously is the only truly good human life, and that we need friendship and social solidarity in pursuing that great good.

It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken into unity with God; human life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter into their right relationship to the Creator (the relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience which God in Christ evokes from them.

Take your Pills ladies, wear your condoms guys (or have a vasectomy) and save yourself a lot of money and grief because if you don't, you could be making a very, very difficult decision to end the life of a growing human.

But when we miss out on trying new things and taking risks, we're missing out on what it looks like to live fully alive as humans made in the image of God.

The Resurrection made it possible to look back upon that human life with fresh insight, so that in later years St. John could write a Gospel in which, though the subject is still the events which took place in Galilee and Jerusalem, the deeds and words of Jesus are reinterpreted in the full light of his risen glory.

In a society founded on the exaltation of freedom it is understandable that the desire to satisfy one's human appetites takes an ever firmer grip on individuals who live in an environment where they have considerable spending power and great encouragement to spend on pleasures and material goods.

Abortion is the willful taking of a human life.

To take cognizance of new insights into human sexuality from the life sciences is not, as some critics suggest, to contribute to the breakdown of morality.

We are encouraged to take responsibility for our own lives, to follow our convictions, to realize our full human potential.

If pro-lifers were truly «pro life» then they would put an equal amount of energy into stopping prison executions which are unarguably taking actual human lives....

Instead work hard at your job, take care of aging parents, volunteer at a soup kitchen, donate to charities and the poor and continue to follow the proper rules of your religion or any good rules of living as gracious and good human beings

The humans were to bless, to name, to take responsibility; to eat and drink and partake with reverence and thanksgiving — that was the eucharistic life of humanity in the midst of God's creation.

Observernow, we as human beings do not have the right to take the life of an innocent human being.

It may sound harsh to say so, but a certain proportion of human life could be saved if areas known to be dangerous for human habitation were avoided, or the proper steps to control the forces of nature were taken where this is possible.

All that we can say with confidence, however, is that our earliest knowledge of humankind takes us back only to the point where humans were already scattered into groups, living a tribal existence, each with its own language and culture.

According to Schindler, the most «stunning» implication of CiV's anthropology is that «no relations taken up by human beings in the course of their lives are purely contractual.»

It is realized in what makes our everyday life specifically human: in the patience that can wait, in the sense of humour which does not take things too seriously, in being prepared to let others be first, in the courage which always seeks for a way out of the difficulties.