Inhumane

“The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war had nothing to do with humanity. War is inhumane.” (Filipovic, 1994, p. 33) Zlata Filipovic has been through more in just her childhood than most people will in their entire lives. No child should have to see what Zlata saw, live what Zlata lived. Witnessing this war was unimaginable until reading Zlata’s Diary. Zlata was only eleven years old when she started writing in her diary that documented her experiences during the Bosnian…

Fortunato I had borne (p. 212)" is most likely an extreme exaggeration. These 'thousand injuries' were probably a figment of Montresor's imagination. Thus, Montresor actually had no viable motive for Fortunato's murder. Plus, the murder itself was inhumane. Montresor "fettered him to the granite (p. 216)," or chained his victim in a niche in the catacombs. After chaining his victim, Montresor "began vigorously to wall up the entrance to the niche (p. 216)." Once the killer had finished entombing…

C. "Nazi Medical Experimentation: The Ethics Of Using Medical Data From Nazi Experiments." Jewish Virtual Library. American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2016. .) Dr. Josef Mengele altered the medical field in one of the most inhumane ways.…

Sadly, inhumane actions such as these were tolerated if not carried out by so-called “professionals.” For instance, in 1919, a boy who ran away from the Anglican Old Sun school was shackled to his bed and whipped repeatedly with a horsewhip until his back bled. Indian Commissioner W.A. Graham tried to have the principal fired but was unsuccessful. In 1924, another similar incident occurred as a boy at the Anglican school in The Pas was beaten until his neck to his buttocks turned black. Graham…

merchants. However, Africans were taken away from their homeland to become a slave elsewhere. The institution of slavery has been abolished because it was responsible for destroying thousands of African families. The lifelong mistreatment of slaves was inhumane. According to Rothman (2015), “Every enslaved person felt the dark touch of the slave trade. The overseas trade dated to the earliest years of the colonial period, and in…

States. In 1861, the first zoo was New York City’s Central Park, but it was not much more than a modest menagerie. It wasn’t until 1874 in Philadelphia where the first modern scientific zoo opened, inspired by the London zoo. Critics say zoos are inhumane because wild animals are not designed to be in captivity. While supporters say the animals are highly benefitted in zoos because they are protected for predators, starvation, or other dangerous threats. Viewpoint #1 The general director of the…

terminated for good because it is inhumane, because the convicts can be innocent, and because it promotes violence. Many people believe sentencing the criminal to the death penalty is the proper thing to do. Their reasons are that by executing criminals, crime rates will decrease in the community and it will bring the grieving families closure to see an end to them. By knowing they will cause no harm to anyone else. It is understandable that families would want to…

Is Euthanasia inhumane? Euthanasia is to take a deliberate action with the express intention of ending a life to relieve intractable, persistent and unstoppable suffering. In many counties Euthanasia is illegal, it is a controversial series in the world, only few counties allow euthanasia such as Belgium, Switzerland and part of state of US; Hong Kong does not legislate on euthanasia. In this essay, I would like to discuss why some many people do not support euthanasia, since the original word…

Puppy Mills: An Inhumane Reproduction There are many people in the world who want to stop the inhumane reproduction between dogs in puppy mills. However not a lot of people know puppy mills exist or where their dog really came from. Puppy mills are an establishment that breeds puppies for sale, on an intensive basis and these conditions are inhumane. Dogs inside puppy mills spend their lives in small cages being neglected and forced to breed repeatedly with no recovery time in between. Puppy…

As of now, our moral standpoint is that “animals have a life and they deserve a chance as well. Killing them is inhumane”. However, humans only take an animal 's life into consideration when it comes to something “wrong” such as animal testing. Every other aspect in our lives, we unintentionally go against our so called “stance”. A common everyday example of this is…