"National awakening" and struggles for political independence are often both heroic and cruel; the formation of a recognizably national state often responds to deep popular sentiment but sometimes yields inhuman consequences, from violent expulsion and "cleansing" of non-nationals to organized mass murder.
If federal border policies are "always right" no matter what and the answer must always be to "work harder" to increase the scope and depth of those policies, in spite of inhuman consequences, our system will continue in an uphill race to possible collapse, Boxer-style.
Both views contain an inhuman consequence.
Other authors consider the criterion for responsibility to be too strong, indeed inhuman in its consequences, since human beings responsible for their own misery would (supposedly) be left alone with their misery (Anderson 1999, also McLeod 1998, Scheffler 2003, Wolff 1998).
In pressing for criminal convictions against Mr Duffy and Mr Calley, the army authorities were seeking to rebut the charge that inhuman actions are a consequence inherent in their strategic or tactical doctrines or in the use of military force itself as a political instrument.
"Defendants are directly liable," the suit charges, "because they designed, developed, and implemented a program for the CIA intended to inflict physical and mental pain and suffering on Plaintiffs, and because Plaintiffs were tortured and subjected to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment as a consequence of their inclusion in that program".
As Tony Blair – whose own response to this act of inhuman cruelty was to have such historic consequences – says of that day in his book A Journey, "It is amazing how quickly shock is absorbed and the natural rhythm of the human spirit reasserts itself … We remember, but not as we felt at that moment".
In the traditional model, people with impairments may be regarded as unfortunate, different, or blemished in some way, and, as a consequence, they are sometimes perceived as having inhuman or nonhuman traits because they are considered unable to perform traditional social roles.
Yet the physical abuse suffered by Zambian female detainees in police and prison custody violate national and international law prohibitions on torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as well as having negative consequences for their health.
