decision-making
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Good, and Discerning Fib, Hyperbole, and lie
Different words of deception carry varying levels of gravity. A fib is when you tell your parents you have finished your homework when in fact you only finished by closing the school books. You will live with the consequences the… Continue reading
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Good and “My Child is Being Poisoned”. When to Intervene?
For a quick short answer I urgently suggest “RIGHT NOW”. What parent wouldn’t immediately rescue their young child from death or life long injury seeing their child in imminent danger? But suppose there were two children and it was your… Continue reading
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Good, the Parasite and the Public Ethic
A good parasite does not kill its host or at least not immediately. A good parasite knows at some primitive level that for as long as the host lives, the nutrition flows. But like all other communities of life, some… Continue reading
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Good, Generosity, and Poverty; the Ultimate Values Clarifier
True poverty reduces one to their true values but poverty is such a hard edged teacher. One can easily present as a good person if one has sufficient resources, but obeying your own authority regarding the values of good from… Continue reading
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Good, Executive Orders, and Dictating a Democracy
Imagine if you lived on the 10th floor of an apartment complex and the children of the vertical community devised a game which involved pulling the fire alarms for the amusement of watching people scramble. We would stop that kind… Continue reading
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Good and The Crime of “Dog Whistling” the Hounds from Hell
To call any group of human beings of any status, race or nationality, gender etc. “garbage” should be an impeachable crime when the lie is told from a position of power. If you follow the news, that term is reported… Continue reading
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Good and “Rage Bait”: Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the year
Rage Bait is Oxford dictionary’s word of the year; except of course it is two words. How many words must one have to build a phrase of the year? I guess dictionaries would collapse under their own weight if they… Continue reading
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Good and “Silence in the Face of Evil”
This Post begins with a quote from Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in an article addressing collapsing morality in this era of ours. “The anti-Nazi Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was hanged by Hitler’s henchmen shortly before… Continue reading
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Good, Governance and No Skin in the Game
Saying that you have no skin in the game suggests you can be impartial and disinterested in the decisions to be made. Generally that is a good thing to say for a mediator in a mediation. However, in governance, ‘no… Continue reading
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