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Category: Ethics and Morals
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Nothing Special
I was thinking about this recently. I’m writing a very independent and stubborn character, Anna of the East Witch, and as I was writing a scene from her point of view, I found it interesting how viscerally she rejected the notion that she was in some way specially talented. Now, I’m perfectly aware that my…
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The Peril of Niceness
The First Reader and I started out our day with a small conversation, but it was more of a running topic we’ve mulled over together for years, now. Probably from even before he and I got together. The topic is something along the lines of ‘nice guys finish last’ and (get your minds out of…
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Repost: Women and Children First
This was originally published on my blog on Dec 9, 2014, but was lost in the hosting shift. So here it is again, and none the worse for being three years old. If you’re looking for the science and speculation, that’s over on the Mad Genius Club post today, where I continue to talk about…
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Guessing Game
Guessing games are fun. I used to play one as a teen that involved picking a word out of the dictionary, one no-one was likely to know, and then in teams we’d write out a fake definition, saving only a judge who knew what the word meant. The judge and teams then listened to the…
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The Healthy Skeptic
I’ve written here on the blog about food, diet, and health many times. It’s not just that I love to cook, or that I view the ‘organic’ movement with a somewhat cynical eye (having been in the midst of it), or that I’m a mother trying to raise healthy kids. The reality is far from…
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A Code of Ethics
We seem to be lacking in ethics as a culture, I have noticed. Yesterday I encountered a jaw-dropping example of this, and today I am listening to a podcast covering the lack of ethics in alternative medicine. But those are just two examples of many out there – I’m sure each and every one of…
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In defense
This isn’t going to be a long post – it’s a long day, and much to do in it. But I was musing on something and wanted your input on it as well. I’ve been reading (almost finished) a book called The Bone Woman by Clea Koff, which is the memoir of a young woman…
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Retrogression
What do Environmentalists, JRR Tolkein, Luddites, and Progressives all have in common? The answer is both easy and complicated all at once. The core of it is fear, but the roots lie deeply embedded in the human psyche, all the way back to a time when something out of the ordinary in the environment surrounding…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Pride
This is a repost, the article originally appeared at the Otherwhere Gazette two years ago. Cedar’s note: this post engendered a lot of discussion, much of it from failing to read carefully: the First Reader is talking about the church as a political entity, not as a body of people. There’s a comment on the…
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Reap What you Sow
I’ve gotten in the habit of teasing my daughters, recently, when we’re talking and I’m reverting to things I learned from the Bible, that I’m going all Biblical on them. So here I am, doing it on the blog. I was musing on this aphorism the other day, and how we usually see it applied…
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Myths
A guest post by Doug Irvin, whose story reminds me much of my First Reader’s tales. Let’s talk about – – – Privilege. It’s hard to get into a decent debate these days without someone playing the Privilege card. “You don’t understand the struggles, because you were raised to be privileged.” “You’re so privileged…
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Arguing on the Internet
There aren’t enough *head-desks* today to keep me from feeling the pain. Most of the time I use social media for networking, sharing art, and hanging with friends. Once in a while, it’s shoved in my face how uneducated some people are – and how little they care about being educated. Yesterday it was rad-feminism…