If we think like that it logically follows that we can legitimately
treat other people as cogs in a machine.
I do not need a jealous and vengeful god for me to
treat other people as I would want to be treated.
The best way to bring the sinfulness of such sins home to us is to point toward the places where humans in fact act wrongly: in home, school, business, contacts with others, and the like, where by pride, self - seeking, neglect of our neighbors, ugliness of behavior in our homes, and so much else, we often behave in a reprehensible manner or we subtly and insidiously
treat other persons as mere «things.»
They can
treat other persons as things, as commodities, as people to be bought and sold.
Someone who goes around
treating other people as inferior to them.
Not exact matches
Maintaining high standards for how
people treat each
other is a wonderful thing
as we live in a world that's rife with animosity and discrimination.
All transgender
people considered for service are subject to the same entry standards
as any
other candidate, and are
treated as an individual of their acquired gender, according to the British Army's website.
5 is a «Best Place to Work» for one simple reason: Our steadfast commitment to hire the right
people,
treat them
as fully - formed adults, and point them toward a common vision of helping
others.
An explosion in Manchester has killed at least 22
people and 59
others are injured in what's been
treated as a «terrorist incident».
The Golden Rule —
treat others as you want to be
treated — has a fatal flaw: it assumes that all
people want to be
treated the same way.
I find that most
people treat business
as a zero - sum game, where one side wins and the
other loses.
But over the years, employers have reached differing conclusions about how the Act's language should be interpreted — specifically the line that says employers must
treat pregnant women the same
as «
other persons not so affected [by pregnancy] but similar in their ability or inability to work.»
We hire the best
people we can,
treat each
other decently, and
treat our customers
as people.
The Golden Rule (
treat others as you want to be
treated) has a fatal flaw: it assumes that all
people want to be
treated the same way.
This could actually be a list of one,
as most of the
other items noted below relate to
treating people like numbers on a spreadsheet instead of humans who have unique goals and needs.
I also see this dis - repsect we give to gay
people as a breaking away from the idea «
treat others how you want to be
treated» (I know I wouldn't want to be shunned for something I can not choose to change).
When Israel forsook the Lord's commandment they themselves were
treated like the midianites and the
people they had driven out, and were put to the sword by foreign conquerers just
as they had done to
others.
Slavery is ownership of another
person as property and the Bible «
treats» it
as acceptable by addressing it directly and determining the «acceptable» way to own
other people.
It's interesting to see how
people will find their own truth, dig in their heals and be blind to any
other idea... What would Jesus do is an interesting question... I consider my self a Christian and a spiritualist... because I believe it's just not
as black and white
as one religion or another thinks... there is way more grey area... but a fundamental truths that are a good rule to live life by, wether you are christian or not...
treat others the way you want to be
treated... do unto
others... I am my brothers keeper... all apply.
If God is truly love, and Jesus truly said «
treat others as you would have them
treat you», that the «religionists» are the ones who hate and condemn the most and those who are not religious preach brotherhood and consideration for all
people?
As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need for people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alon
As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need for
people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema
as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alon
as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a
person treat other people nicer then we should leave that
person and his beliefs alone.
fail to understand the rich vocabulary of symbolism provided by etiquette, which enables
people to recognize essential attributes or intentions of
others, such
as that a man wearing a tie is
treating the occasion seriously.
[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.»
It is identical to racial issues: civil and church laws need to protect the truth about the equal dignity of all races because that truth allows us to
treat others as persons.
Civil laws and church laws need to protect, respectively, the natural and revealed truths about our sexuality, precisely because those truths allow us to
treat others as persons.
«Whatever insults human dignity, such
as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery... the selling of women and children;
as well
as disgraceful working conditions, where men are
treated as mere tools for profit, rather than
as free and responsible
persons; all these things and
others of their like are infamies indeed... they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator.»
As artificial birth control and abortion define the other as something to be destroyed or defended against, or as in - vitro fertilization and cloning treat the person as a commodity which can be manufactured and marketed, the body ofwoman reminds man that our eternal dignity is realized precisely in our embodiment and not despite i
As artificial birth control and abortion define the
other as something to be destroyed or defended against, or as in - vitro fertilization and cloning treat the person as a commodity which can be manufactured and marketed, the body ofwoman reminds man that our eternal dignity is realized precisely in our embodiment and not despite i
as something to be destroyed or defended against, or
as in - vitro fertilization and cloning treat the person as a commodity which can be manufactured and marketed, the body ofwoman reminds man that our eternal dignity is realized precisely in our embodiment and not despite i
as in - vitro fertilization and cloning
treat the
person as a commodity which can be manufactured and marketed, the body ofwoman reminds man that our eternal dignity is realized precisely in our embodiment and not despite i
as a commodity which can be manufactured and marketed, the body ofwoman reminds man that our eternal dignity is realized precisely in our embodiment and not despite it.
In population control, euthanasia, abortion, and eugenics, the human
person is
treated as an object or product to be used or eliminated according to the purposes of those who have power over
others.
If we say that fertilized eggs are potentially
people and should be
treated as such, should we all
treat each
other as though they are dead?
The alternative would be to make a tactical retreat, hand over our schools gradually to the state, and insist on the right of Catholic pupils in state education to be
treated with the same consideration
as people of
other faiths.
People want to believe so badly that they are willing to
treat others not
as they would like to be
treated, but
as something worse, or even kill.
These (most)
People just use it as a diversion to distract people away from how they truely are, and ya know what, it works really well on «fellow Christians;» they stick together like glue, like a heard of stupid sheep and baaaaaa baaaa each other, while they go around and treat honest and truthful «evil heathens» like dog crap on the bottom of their
People just use it
as a diversion to distract
people away from how they truely are, and ya know what, it works really well on «fellow Christians;» they stick together like glue, like a heard of stupid sheep and baaaaaa baaaa each other, while they go around and treat honest and truthful «evil heathens» like dog crap on the bottom of their
people away from how they truely are, and ya know what, it works really well on «fellow Christians;» they stick together like glue, like a heard of stupid sheep and baaaaaa baaaa each
other, while they go around and
treat honest and truthful «evil heathens» like dog crap on the bottom of their shoe.
Islam believes Jews and Christians are
people of the book and should be
treated with respect
as well
as other religions.
The categorical imperative to «
treat humanity, whether in thine own
person or in that of any
other, in every case
as an end withal, never
as means only» (46) was, for Kant, the «universal law of nature» (38) and his understanding of it is the most radical conception of natural law in its modern sense.
On Apel's account, these rights articulate the valid meaning that can be given to the second formulation of Kant's categorical imperative: «So act
as to
treat humanity, whether in thine own
person or in that of any
other, in every case
as an end withal, never
as means only» (46).
To «do unto
others as you would have
others do unto you» implies that
people are all alike, and that one proceeds by projecting one's own preferences upon the rest of humanity, then
treating everyone else
as a replica of oneself.
There in the closed room, where one probed and
treated the isolated psyche according to the inclination of the self - encapsulated patient, the patient was referred to ever - deeper levels of his inwardness
as to his proper world; here outside, in the immediacy of human standing over against each
other, the encapsulation must and can be broken through, and a transformed, healed relationship must and can be opened to the sick
person in his relations to otherness — to the world of the
other which he can not remove into his soul.
Kant's categorical imperatives, «Act always on such a maxim
as thou canst at the same time will to be a universal law» and «So act
as to
treat humanity, whether in thine own
person or in that of any
other, in every case
as an end withal, never
as means only,» are actually in one sense imposed from without.
Persons who are initially grouped together according to some particular feature come to be
treated as interchangeable units and thus are driven into identification with each
other and into similar patterns of life which extend the range of likenesses.
Up to a certain point, this applies even in a relationship in which the
other person treats one strictly
as It, for the
other must be a Thou for us unconditionally and not dependent on how he
treats us.
Thus there is very little disagreement with Kant's famous dictum: «So act
as to
treat humanity, whether in thine own
person or in that of any
other, in every case
as an end withal, never
as a means only.»
When we
treat others as ourselves, we realize
people have the same needs
as us.
Some have told us they have enough sandwiches, crackers and some of the
other things that are frequently given to them, but they need more
people who
treat them
as people.
Ancient literature, like modern fairy tales, is full of narratives in which gods and
other supernatural beings disguise themselves
as human beings, sometimes
as the lowest of the low, and roam throughout the world to see how
people will
treat them.
Perhaps CNN should say «Act Christian», since it's how a
person treats others (the golden rule) that marks the difference — even the devil knows Scripture — but he doesn't act Christian, since he isn't, and
as Scripture says, that's how to determine whether a
person is Christian or not, and that is by their «first fruits» or how they act towards
others...
Familial life when at its best is so ordered that the personal quality of
others is augmented; they can not be
treated as if they were merely objects or things to be used by one
person simply to promote that
person's own development.
They eventually become a nuisance to
other people and are generally
treated as such....
So many
people have seen «Christians» who don't look anything like Jesus to them, so are genuinely surprised and often interested in finding out just why someone does
treat others as Jesus did.
This new community also faced struggles from within, with some of their members lying to one another (Acts 5:1 - 11) and certain Jewish
people not getting
treated as well
as others (Acts 6:1 - 7).
Today, more than fifty years after the Holocaust, many of us need to be reminded that Pope Pius XII saved more Jewish lives than any
other person, including Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler» men who are often, and rightly,
treated as heroes for their efforts.