Advocates fear it's merely trying to kill neutrality with a whimper, rather than a bang.
And to break the fourth wall: this is the type of post that's merely meant to kill some time, and not particularly add any happiness to your day.
For Spinoza consistently regards sane human beings as finite modes who, beyond merely not trying to kill themselves, actively try to preserve themselves.
Hoeven called it merely "an excuse to kill the project".
Is somebody who clicks on a weather report a sportsman, a commuter or merely somebody with time to kill?
"As I say in this new book of mine, not merely did I learn to kill," he told Sheldon Hackney, who was then chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, in a 1996 interview about "Doing Battle".
Though not a vegetarian, he held "a deep contempt for people who go out to kill merely to amuse themselves".
Broadening the subject to the morality of war, Updike notes that in some religious systems merely to be alive is to kill: the Jains try to prevent such killing, he adds, "by wearing gauze masks to avoid inhaling insects".
In the three-week trial in Hesse, lawyers for the teenagers argued that they had never intended to kill anybody, but merely viewed the events as if they were playing a computer game.
Another, probably unacceptable, exception is the one the British want to make for self-destructing mines used to pepper a runway; these, it is argued, are not designed to kill anybody but merely to deny an area to aircraft.There are also big questions on clearing the 100m or so landmines that lie buried under the ground, waiting to go off.
