As it stood, increased automation hadn't reduced human errors on the whole; it had simply changed their form.
In a similar vein, the Daily Telegraph said it was "Blind Date with knobs on" and "reduced human attraction to a kind of game show meat market.
Robert F. Kennedy reduced human need to its simplest root principle in 1968 when he said, "What everyone wants is a job and some hope".
Like other theorists who have reduced human psychology to a single dominant motive – Epicurus, Nietzsche, Freud – Hobbes aimed above all to make people more realistic.
These beautifully rendered pictures, evoking Soviet-era illustration that reduced human beings to virtual logos without distinct features (like the sign symbols on rest rooms), are highly accessible for young readers.
War reduced human beings to serial numbers, "quasi-mechanical interchangeable parts", and their opponents to vermin who could be slaughtered with "crazy brutality and sadism".
This strategy worked in Guatemala, where a sustained, multi-country effort reduced human rights violations and helped to end another 40-year, Cold War conflict.
The only safeguard that I could see was vigilance, against any ideology that reduced human beings to the one word for which they could be murdered (Jew, Commie, Prod, Taig, Brit, Mick … or fascist, come to that); and against yourself, that you didn't just shrug such language off.
Fig. 4 NPs reduced human fibroblast migration in vitro.
