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Cruelty in sentence

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Terrified of his master, he will not run away, and since he's been treated with cruelty all his life, he passes that down to the younger slaves that he manages.
Slavery, of course, was the preferred labor-saving device, and cruelty was a popular form of entertainment.
One of the reasons violence went down is that people got sick of the carnage and cruelty in their time.
He was three when he became a mixed drink of one part left alone and two parts tragedy, started therapy in eighth grade, had a personality made up of tests and pills, lived like the uphills were mountains and the downhills were cliffs, four-fifths suicidal, a tidal wave of antidepressants, and an adolescent being called "Popper," one part because of the pills, 99 parts because of the cruelty.
I didn't want to judge him with the same cruelty that he judged me.
Can reason force the reasoner to want less cruelty and waste?
But fully two centuries before, the Enlightenment thinker Jeremy Bentham had exposed the indefensibility of customary practices such as the cruelty to animals.
Today, in multiple countries, corporations are pushing new laws that make it illegal to photograph animal cruelty on their farms.
But they knew to get to Europe they had to risk their lives, traveling across the Mediterranean Sea, putting their hands in smugglers', notorious for their cruelty.
The psychologist Steven Pinker and others have shown that all around the world people are becoming less and less accepting of suffering in ever-widening circles of others, which has led to declines of all kinds of cruelty and violence, from animal abuse to domestic violence to capital punishment.
But what's clear is the kinds of changes we're seeing show that the roots of altruism and compassion are just as much a part of human nature as cruelty and violence, maybe even more so, and while some people do seem to be inherently more sensitive to the suffering of distant others, I really believe that the ability to remove oneself from the center of the circle and expand the circle of compassion outward to include even strangers is within reach for almost everyone.
When we behave violently towards robots, specifically robots that are designed to mimic life, is that a healthy outlet for violent behavior or is that training our cruelty muscles?
We don't know ... But the answer to this question has the potential to impact human behavior, it has the potential to impact social norms, it has the potential to inspire rules around what we can and can't do with certain robots, similar to our animal cruelty laws.
I want them to be safe from unwanted pregnancy, disease, cruelty, dehumanization, violence.
Yet one of their most famous punishments is not remembered for its outrageous cruelty, but for its disturbing familiarity.
And when you express your sorrow, and when you react against the cruelty, you get all kinds of reactions, messages on social media.
It helps them advertise their cruelty.
And this leads to point four, what I call human cruelty.
You know when we talk about animals, we say animal cruelty when animals are abused, because there's no charter acknowledged by the UN saying animal rights charter.
So whenever animals are abused, we say animal cruelty.
The way they abuse people, the type of cruelty that happens in all impunity under dictatorships are beyond human imagination.
So no gavage, no force feeding, no factory-like conditions, no cruelty.
But there were dissenters all along– jurists, scholars, and physicians countered books like Kraemer’s "Hammer of Witches" with texts objecting to the cruelty of the hunts, the use of forced confessions, and the lack of evidence of witchcraft.
I think, it's partly that seriousness, the forces of seriousness, of humorlessness, would limit us to narrow thinking, rigid ideology, cruelty, and a tunnel vision whereas humor obliges us to have an open mind.
You can diminish the non-compassion, the cruelty, the callousness, the neglect of others, and take universal responsibility for them.
But really the most important question I ever asked, and most of the times when I talk about it, people kind of suck in their breath at my audacity, or cruelty, but I promise you it was the right question.
You can approach it in one of two ways: (1) A gritty, realistic movie turned sappy; or (2) a sappy, ABC-afterschool-special with profanity, violence and animal cruelty.
Please spare you and your loved ones the inhuman cruelty of sitting through this.
It's hard to imagine how Spike Lee could look back affectionately on so much chaos, petty cruelty, irresponsibility and mean-spiritedness.
Every game he played in was a spectacle in human ability and cruelty.
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