Sam Adams

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams

"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms ... " -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at 86-87 (Pierce & Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)







Sunday, December 30, 2012

Poster Regarding the Expansion of Human Empathy

At the end of 2012, as the traditional New Year approaches, it's nice to read this post via: ScottCA Bako ChatRooms5 months ago
  • "... as the Moral Philosopher Peter Singer has pointed out in his book "The Expanding Circle" Our ability to empathize with others is expanding and growing stronger, not weaker...
Harvard Psychology Professor Steven Pinker has written extensively about the declining rate of violence...People are becoming less violent, not more violent."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/30/us/florida-murdock-suicide/index.html

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