He rightly implies that humanity's capacity to kill has increased exponentially with the rise of industrialized technology.
This institution was founded at the dawn of the atomic age, in part because man's capacity to kill had to be contained.
As I said yesterday, this very institution was founded at the dawn of the atomic age, in part because man's capacity to kill had to be contained.
I not only had the capacity to kill, I had the capacity to forget about it, to not let it bother me".
Can we imagine drones buzzing constantly over an American neighborhood, unmanned planes with the capacity to kill people at any moment?
"Even within five days, the LRA, who are now about 200, does not have the capacity to kill all those people".
The 2012 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, renewed focus on the availability of assault weapons and their capacity to kill large numbers of people quickly.
This contrasts with President Obama, who called for progress towards a nuclear-weapon-free world, saying: This institution was founded at the dawn of the atomic age, in part because man's capacity to kill had to be contained.
We will always have the capacity to kill one another in large numbers, but with effort we can safeguard the norms and institutions that have made war increasingly repugnant.
Today, one terror network, al-Qaeda, has the capacity to kill around the world, and has struck in more than ten UN member states in the past few years.
What the attack shows, said Anneke Van Woudenberg, a Human Rights Watch researcher who was recently in Congo, "is that whether they are weakened or not, the L.R.A.'s capacity to kill remains as strong as ever".
