It is unlikely that, by the time people have talked themselves into inhumane views, rational argument is going to change their minds.
The solitary confinement of mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik risks turning into "inhumane treatment", Norway's parliamentary ombudsman said in a report published on Wednesday.
I like excitement, too, but I feel that we've been burned before by designer enthusiasms that come to ignore the collective; for example, the evolution of the International Style into inhumane housing for the masses, or the seminal ideas of post-modernism becoming cheap appliqués on ill-conceived boxes devoid of meaning or elegance.
When does cruel and inhumane get taken into account?
Last night, ABC News reported on the results of an investigation by Mercy for Animals (MFA) into inhumane practices within the dairy industry.
One would think we'd have figured them out by now, but we haven't and we still live in a world where women are disproportionally victimized, attacked, put into inhumane circumstances and left to feel perpetually unsafe.
An example of someone with cognitive impairment receiving inadequate treatment in prison is the 23-year-old Aboriginal man identified as Mr. KA in the Australian Human Rights Commission 2014 report into inhumane detention and the rights of people with disabilities.
At its tamest, clowns wobbled into each other in tedious pranks; at its most inhumane, elephants were beaten into submission at the command of men whose grand designs for entertainment consist of coercing biological miracles to parade around like epileptic ballerinas.
Long ago, he had decided that giving birth in this inhumane and shameless state — into a meaningless life of poverty and filth — should not be done.
The only thing that has kept me alive was the eternal thirst for revenge that has numbed my heart to stone and transformed me into something inhumane.
