The concept of humanity and the possibilities of humans stand currently to be redefined by technology with unprecedented speed: technology is quickly expanding the potential to use AI functions to enhance our skills and abilities.
Just action, towards people and environment, is letting created reality, both human and non-human, stand before God unhindered by attempts to control and dominate.
"When the pandemic of AIDS becomes a truly frightening thing, humans will not stand by and watch their own species reduced while they protect animals that could help test vaccines and drugs," Frederick King said in a 1988 issue of Science.
I, as a human being, can't stand by and say that's his problem.
Joey — an astonishing equine construction of wood, metal, and leather, who is operated by three humans — stood in a corner.
But as a mother, as a human being, I can't stand by.
But "truth is advanced" only when "human beings who possess it stand by it unbendingly, apply it and carry it through, act according to it, and bring it to power against the resistance of reactionary, narrow, one-sided points of view" (Horkheimer 1935a, p. 4).
We can stop this madness that puts people all over the world at risk, change the direction of this storm and, in keeping with the most deeply held values of our nation, refuse to stand by while human beings are denied the basic freedoms they deserve.
Back before humans invented chairs we humans stood a lot.
In a word full of human rights violations can we ever stand by, or do we acquire guilt by not acting?
