It is a higher form of killing".
It would, he thought, provide "a higher form of killing".
Isis has asked people of similar ilk to carry out beheadings, tapping into widespread publicity they have received through that gruesome form of killing.
It raises vexing legal questions, because, as Truog bluntly told me, without the rule "taking organs is a form of killing" — killing that he thinks is justified, and that Youngner and others would argue is already happening.
While it is a fallacy to imagine any suicide as a solitary act — even the tidiest affair leaves survivors stricken — death by train is a particularly declaratory form of killing oneself.
With time, though, methods that were once hailed as innovative and humane end up faring no better than their predecessors, and one can't help but sense that the continual migration from one form of killing to another has to do not so much with real progress toward greater humanity, as with the ultimately groundless whim of fashion.
Local physician, Dr. Tim Provow, who's President of the ballot initiative committee, explains I-177 would greatly reduce "a form of killing that involves days of pain, starvation, even self-amputation, before animals succumb".
I couldn't know whether I was actually capable of stealing another life, and I was not sure that this inability is not, by itself, another form of killing.
Likewise, we may say that any abuse, degradation, enslavement, character assassination, oppression, humiliation, dehumanization or any other condition by which a fellow human being is being stripped of dignity and value; or taken advantage of either by another person, groups of individuals, government or any political, military or ideological system, represents a form of killing.
Doubtless Blair hurt his prospects irreparably by making clear to the president his skepticism regarding the usefulness of drone warfare: a form of killing Obama favors as the most politic and antiseptic available to the U.S. Since being sacked, Blair has come out publicly against the broad use of drones in Pakistan and elsewhere.
