For those who believe that to lose one's autonomy is a greater evil than to lose one's life and that, other things being equal, intentionally causing harm is morally worse than causing harm that is merely foreseen, there will be more cases in which torture is morally worse than killing than have been thus far admitted to.
To be openly gay ran huge risks – from losing jobs, to losing friends and family, to losing one's life.
What better place to lose one's life than in a comfortable seat in a cinema?" He had sat through it three times: "It was a very long bombing raid".
In both cases, it has never taken very much for an African-American to lose one's life, whether taking a hog during the time of formal Jim Crow or jaywalking three Saturdays ago in Ferguson.
Obviously, by posing wrong-doing against losing one's life, Socrates means to emphasize that nothing outweighs in positive value the disvalue of doing unjust actions.
To lose one's life because of a hate crime is horrifying.
To lose one's life to a hate crime in a holy place of worship stems from the ultimate act of cowardice and hatred.
Trying to cross the maritime boundaries between North and South America in a boat involves serious risks of getting lost or losing one's life at sea.
And far more - she showed by example how to grow old with grace and how to balance saving the world with not losing one's life.
In many countries, whether mandated by law or not, people are denied these rights; and in certain parts of the world, using one's voice result in having your home or business burned down, losing a body part or losing one's life.
If the laws regarding Selective Service change to include women, females are about to be forced into the greatest lack-of-choice scenario: the ability to decide whether one wants to join a war and possibly lose one's life for our country.
