Good, and Discerning Fib, Hyperbole, and lie

morality

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Good and Why Immigration is not Political

    If you don’t understand why immigration is not essentially political you need to go to the movie Nuremberg which has recently opened in theaters. No, the treatment of the immigrant is first and foremost, moral.  The political response is only an echo of… Continue reading

  • 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

  • Good Starvation and the Sin of Distraction

    I suspect some forms of distraction could be called a moral transgression or in less letters and a shorter word, a sin. For example, the spreading of the the lies of crimes in politics while the crime actually occurs in… Continue reading

  • Good and the Slow Walk to Hell

    What is going on with immigration will redefine the history of this nation. Beckett and Kafka recognized the seeds of this problem long ago. The humane solution to the immigration problem is the administration of a rational law and funding… Continue reading

  • Good, Ethics, Breaking the Law and Country

    Ethics are mediating devices through which  humanity can prevent the rule of law from becoming a tyrant.  Every human person is infinitely complex and every human law is profoundly  limited due to that individual complexity.  The law is most definitely… Continue reading

  • Good, Waiting for Godot , and Unlikely Strangers

    Somehow Samual Becket’s Play “Waiting for Godot” keeps percolating up as I watch the inevitability of this political season unfold. Whatever one thinks of our current President, the nation such as it is, and its Supreme Court, have conceded the… Continue reading

  • Good and When a Detention Facility becomes a Concentration Camp

    Detention has become a euphemism for concentration.  Facility has become a euphemism for prison camp.  With a goal of 3,000 immigration arrests a day this administration is, intentionally or not, setting, the stage for concentration camps in America.  This is… Continue reading