Word: inhumanism
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...excitement at his own energy, Bok confronted another vexing moral issue--one there wasn't even a building occupation about, although 2000 students did vote to strike about it a couple of hours before Bok's statement came out. "Many people believe that the United States is engaging in inhuman acts in bombing North Vietnam," Bok said squarely. With that vexation out of the way, Bok went on to reject PALC's demand for divestiture. Divesting "would have been easy and gained an obvious popularity in some quarters," Bok explained, but Harvard had nevertheless courageously decided "not to turn away...
...invention of the ball bearing, Illich says, gave Western man a choice between more freedom in equity or more speed. When men selected more speed, they were not aware of the hidden costs their progeny would discover in high-energy transportation: inhuman times scarcity, massive space consumption, invidious class conflict and the consequent psychic and social frustration. He incisively explains how this "raindance of continuing acceleration" increasingly determines the schedule of daily life, the geography of social space, the correlation of speed with socio-economic rank and the very quality of human existence: "Past a certain threshold of energy consumption...
...Jews of the Warsaw ghetto, goaded beyond endurance or hope into a desperate refusal to submit. And that is why--even a year after the cease-fire--the most intemperate attacks on those who forced the Vietnamese to such desperate straits, who called forth such hopeless and inhuman heroism, continue to make sense...
...should do much better. He will probably never bump into anyone or anything, never pause for idle chatter or flirtation, or stop for more than 42 seconds at any one desk -indeed, never veer from any of his appointed rounds. If his fellow Sears employees find this paragon irritatingly inhuman, they can be excused. For the methodical new mailboy is a robot...
...dangers of misuse of knowledge are not taken into account as research progresses, and if adequate safeguards against inhuman and unconstitutional use are not enacted in advance, we have here all the potential for a rerun of the Inquisition and the blasted hopes of the Manhattan Project rolled into...