Tag: morals

  • “Everybody Lies” — But normalizing it is wrong

    Politicians lie. Trump lies. Criminals lie. But now I’m repeating myself. The point is that lying is human and it wouldn’t be central to every single ethos since the species became social if it weren’t. The quotation, however, come out of the mouth of fictional doctor Gregory House—itself… a lie, of a sort. Oh the…

  • The Malevolent Imagination

    Why are good ideas perverted, leaving an ineradicable bad condition? This is an update to the post only to serve as a pointer to a genuine journalist who is on the same track and published very soon after this was posted. Ezra Klein’s Times piece, “This Changes Everything” (NYT 12/3/23) is well worth the read.…

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