Whatever the project may be, building dams or statues, the task was to be completed in set amount of time, at any cost, even human life. ... I offered him my leather shoes for my life and he agreed. A life here is worth no more than a pair of torn leather shoes." ... It seemed as though Stalin placed no importance on the value of human life. ... Louis Fischer, The Life and Death of Stalin. ...
Can happen, and does: we all know the story--we see it in the media all the time. ... Insofar as everybody has a life, everybody has a story. ... His life plan veered off his intended path. ... And what happens to the idea of time in the narrative? It may be that the character finds there is suddenly "not much time left," or "it's time for the things that are important," or time could be transcended altogether in the face of the ultimates. ...
Soren Kierkegaard, in his struggle to understand human existence, believed that time is a major factor for this understanding. As humans, we exist in time, and therefore it is an aspect of human nature, given that anything human entails human nature. ... In order to do this we will need to develop Kierkegaard's conception of the self, and the difference between spatialized time and life time. ... Let us say that it is now six fifty nine in the morning and this person starts work at eight o"clock and in order to get to work on time they have to be up by seven o"clock at the latest, I s...
I believe it is impossible to distinguish when any given person attains his or her own humanity; in other words, the time when we can stop thinking of them as an "it" or thing, and call them an actual person. ... She claims that becoming pregnant is like waking up one morning and realizing you have been hooked up to a dying violinist who needs to make use of your organs to survive for a certain amount of time. ... Many people on the pro-life side would argue that because the child inside the woman is an innocent life, and a human being, it should never be killed. ... I have to differ; we d...
