philosophy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Good and Moral Humiliation
The only thing good and greed share is their first letter g. The accumulation of great personal wealth beyond a certain measure should be humiliating, embarrassing and shameful. Pull back the blankets on today’s international tragedies and the disparity of… Continue reading
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