Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life.
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“With an amazingly useful way of thinking and acting, Most Good, Least Harm is multi-faceted in its utility….The innovation in this book is…spreading a message of being socially, politically, and environmentally conscious when making decisions.”
~ Jordan Dacayanan, Sacramento Book Review
What does it mean to do the most good and the least harm? How can this become a guiding principle, and how can one always know the answer? After all, we can’t predict the future; we can’t know every detail of every effect of our choices, and it can be awfully difficult to balance our [...]
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The L.A. Times had an article (http://www.latimes.com/services/site/premium/access-registered.intercept) about the conflict between animal protection advocates and those supporting ritual slaughter of bulls in South Africa. It boils down to this (from the beginning of the article): “Thousands of animals are killed every month in South Africa in tribal cleansing ceremonies, and rituals marking births, deaths and [...]
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While last week’s United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was widely circulated and discussed, The American Enterprise Institute’s offer to scientists of $10,000 to critique this global warming report was a blip in the news. In fact, when I heard about the report – casting little doubt that current global warming is a [...]
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