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Category Archives: Humanity

A moral dilemma

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Back in September of 2009 I posted a story here regarding the pending deportation of an individual to his home country, a country that still lives by social codes common to the 1st century. Had he been deported he faced execution for apostasy. Laws against apostasy (renouncing the state religion) [...]

Adulthood is no fun

“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
A fireman, nurse, policeman, soldier, spy, ballerina, pilot, astronaut, but mostly, especially, grown up. We want to stop being children and become adults.
Even children use “childish” as a pejorative.  Adults are responsible, mature, somber, sober and serious. The only time most adults let loose and have [...]