culture of death

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   In moral theology, the concept that human life can be a means to some other end and not…

   In moral theology, the concept that human life can be a means to some other end and not solely an end itself.

2. 2

   In contemporary political and philosophical discourse, a culture asserted to be…

   In contemporary political and philosophical discourse, a culture asserted to be inconsistent with the concept of a "culture of life", such as cultures that support contraception and abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, human cloning, self-absorption, apathy or poverty.

3. 3

   A society that reveres suicide bombers as martyrs.

   • But can one nevertheless regard suicide bombing as an expression of the political culture—the culture of death—that has emerged in modern times in the Middle East?
   • Still, with ... each individual case ... of individual suicide bombers ... it seems that we have to acknowledge first of all that there is a larger pattern of a culture of death
   • Suicide bombings ... were still wrong because such reasoning promotes a culture of death and nihilism that will take years to erase from the Palestinian narrative

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