arbitrariness

Example Sentences

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For others, dog meat has served as a provocative thought exercise about the arbitrariness of the moral value humans assign to animals.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2024

She particularly focuses on what she calls the "arbitrariness" and the damage it has caused.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 2023

"Nothing can protect Belarusians from arbitrariness," says Pavel Sapelka.

From BBC • May 10, 2023

The numbers feel arbitrary in a way that drives home the arbitrariness of punishment in the first place.

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2023

Initially, one of the most puzzling features of animal domestication is the seeming arbitrariness with which some species have been domesticated while their close relatives have not.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond