What do you think of this statement? “Humans are good only because we are afraid of the consequences of being bad”. My daughter asked me this last night. She said her class had this discussion yesterday. No, it wasn’t philosophy either, it was an English class. We discussed this statement together last night and I kept going back to the same thing. That if we (humans) weren’t good (the majority of us) we would not be a humane society. We would not have rules and regulations th...

Recently Shovelheat Link wrote an article about a friend of his who had some good fortune. I thought that was a wonderful thing. It got me thinking about how some people can be when other people are lucky. I won’t say who, just in case of whatever, but someone I know experience some of the kind of weird behavior from people around them on a daily basis. And it makes me wonder all the time, why is that? Why are people so disgusting? Why can’t they just leave some people alone? It...