Good, Morality or Business?, the False Binary

philosophy

  • Good, Morality or Business?, the False Binary

    When I read one of our political parties had proposed concentrating the message more on business more than morality I had to press against both ears with my hands because my head was threatening to explode. When simple grade school… Continue reading

  • Good, False Morality, and Friends and Enemies,

    Morality in its natural state is a set of behavioral expectations arising from the social mores of a culture or community.  Religions also impact morality, and each informs their own practitioners of their specific  moral instructions through their sources of… Continue reading

  • Good, Distraction, and the True Sense Radical

    How do we break through this divisive trance? In earlier Posts we have looked at the difference between the extremist and the true radical. The point was the extremist plays the shallow ends of the political spectrum. The true sense… Continue reading

  • Good, “Justified Killing”, and the Mortal Decision

    The tragically mistaken idea of someone killing another human being can be justified based on their own private rational and personal experience has surfaced once again in the storm stream of the internet. It appears the CEO of Unitedhealth may… Continue reading

  • Good, Debate, Lies, and Moral Equivalency

    When did it happen that a person could prevail in a debate simply because that person got away with the most effective lies, omissions, and immoral moral equivalencies? If you watched the US political debates this year, there must have… Continue reading

  • Good and the Tyranny of Need

    We live in a culture where we have given other people permission to engineer and impose upon us what they need our personal needs to be. When we submit to that contract, advertisers and influences own a big part of… Continue reading

  • Good, Lies, Connection and Crime

    This project tries to help people ground their decisions in the truth starting with discerning one’s own truth.  Good decisions rely on truth.  A fact alone is not a truth and sadly lies often contain facts.  In some ways, the… Continue reading

  • Good, People, War, Crime

    If you really want a prolonged war the first thing to do is to reduce people into categories. Create a box that looks like an egg crate and line those people up in neat abstract rows. Crimes of passion in… Continue reading

  • Good and Power

    For some people good and power are contradictions and for others, near perfect synonyms. Of course both positions are false which is why we have two different words representing two distinct forces in this universe. The formal definitions of these… Continue reading

  • Good, Penalty and Civil Disobedience

    David French in his NYT article (Colleges have Gone Off the Deep End. There Is a Way Out) on college protests quoted Martin Luther King in his treatment of the conduct of civil disobedience. He writes: “the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther… Continue reading