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
Recently, I was sitting at the pond behind our house observing the myriad life around me. The damselflies were mating, flying attached to one another as the one in the rear dropped eggs into the pond. I saw one damselfly struggling underwater, and several others flew to the site of the struggle. As the damselfly [...]
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In a previous blog post, “Letting a Blind Man Fall,” I shared my thoughts about Erik Reece’s account of ignoring a blind man who had fallen on a subway platform and whose cane had broken. Roberto Giannicola, a friend, colleague, and reader of my blog wrote to share this story with me, a lovely corrective [...]
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I received a packet of thank you letters from a middle school class that I taught for several days, and I wanted to share some excerpts with you: “I was blown away by all of the surprising discoveries you talked about…. I liked the idea that we get to discover so much by ourselves about [...]
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