In 2004, Helgerson wrote a pointed confidential report questioning the legality, the medical safety, and the humaneness of the program, which spurred conservative, Bush-appointed lawyers in the Justice Department to withdraw arguments that had been made to justify the program.
Ren, ( Chinese: "humanity," "humaneness," "goodness," "benevolence," or "love") Wade-Giles romanization jen, the foundational virtue of Confucianism.
On this basis, he goes on to formulate the definition of ren (humanity, humaneness) for the subsequent tradition: "the essential character of mind" and "the essential pattern of love".
As I was writing up a talk for upcoming meetings on Compassionate Conservation I came across a report called "Improving the humaneness of commercial kangaroo harvesting" in which the researchers also tried to sanitize what they were doing when looking for humane ways to kill healthy kangaroo joeys, also called pouch-young.
So would the "rise of humaneness", as highly developed automation would leave to us the tasks through which we can express our humanity.
During the eight-year study, badgers were trapped in cages and shot, which is considered more humane, but the pilot's purpose was to test the safety, efficacy and humaneness of a cheaper option – shooting free-running badgers at night.
As evidence of nitrogen's humaneness, he cited an accident at the Kennedy Space Center in which two NASA technicians (it was actually three) succumbed to the odorless, invisible gas after being unwittingly exposed to it.
"This book sketches some of the difficulties faced by our civilisation – a civilisation which might perhaps be described as aiming at humaneness and reasonableness, at equality and freedom; a civilisation which is still in its infancy, as it were, and which continues to grow in spite of the fact that it has been so often betrayed by so many of the intellectual leaders of mankind".
He talks about Isaac Asimov (an inspiration explicitly acknowledged within the show) and the transition from humaneness to human-ness, from consciousness to conscience.
Can't they be just family values, something that we all treasure as a mark of our fundamental humanity and humaneness?
