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Democracy’s First Virtue: Telling the Painful Inconvenient Truth
Truth in times like these will more often than not contain an arrangement of facts that are both painful and inconvenient. A recent public hearing showed a crowd screaming at a minority party representative to do something. Do what? The… Continue reading
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Good, Violence, Scolding and The Tolerance Paradox
We are solidly into the Tolerance Paradox. The Tolerance Paradox, like all really good puzzles like this is a quite simple question: Is intolerance tolerable? How do we subscribe to virtue without becoming trapped in intolerance or finding ourselves tolerating… Continue reading
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Good, and the 21st Century Version of the Examination of Conscience
The Good Decision tries to look at both sides of any aspect of ‘good’. Otherwise, how can it be good if the bias of one’s mind is set to deny the errors of one’s way? The consequence of this examination… Continue reading
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Good and Decisions in the Last Life Boats
The dark fascination with the last moments of the Titanic often comes home on the issue of too few life boats available and too many people in the fatally dark waters. We tend to follow the movie storyline to the… Continue reading
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Good, Unforgiving MAGA, and a New Kind of Inhumanity
The news service article was a throw away; something about the boos for Taylor Swift at the latest Super Bowl. But then the new president of our nation is quoted as having made a very low-end comment saying the boos… Continue reading
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Good, Sanctuary, and the Next Subtle Sacrilege
The idea of Sanctuary in churches goes back deep into the history of western civilization. Much can be said, but essentially there was a consensus agreement that armed civil authority would not enter sacred space without the consent of keepers… Continue reading
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Good, Rev Martin Luther King, and the Vocation of ‘Unenforceable Obligations’
“I’ve been to the mountaintop And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.” … Continue reading
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Good Violence and Winning the Revolution
Sometimes it seems from history’s lessons that the only thing more difficult than losing the revolution is winning it. The victors inherit the structure of governance, or what is left of it, and have to do better than the vanquished… Continue reading
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Good, Death and Dying
I will break the political trance of this Project for a moment in a commitment to highlighting courageous writing that dares to approach something resembling the truth. Truth, after all, was the first and last victim of this last couple… Continue reading
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Good, Suffering, and the Reconstruction of a Culture
This nation of the United States appears to this writer to have a medical system that leads in the world in reducing the experience of physical pain. The tragic irony is the United States just might also be a world… Continue reading
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