tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post6377833923447404593..comments2024-03-28T21:41:32.110-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Enchiridion IVGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-89511253375393311042022-01-15T12:25:27.419-05:002022-01-15T12:25:27.419-05:00That merits an aside, JM. I will post separately a...That merits an aside, JM. I will post separately about that issue.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-32975040322335750992022-01-15T10:39:50.404-05:002022-01-15T10:39:50.404-05:00It's a challenge to resist the human -- even a...It's a challenge to resist the human -- even animalistic -- urge to punish offenses against our instinctive sense of proper behaviors. Chickens will leave off feeding to enforce their status in the local pecking order. Canines defend their fair share of a carcass brought down in a pack hunt -- and enforce their rights to a hunting territory. Social animals will form mobs to drive away individuals who seem crazy or sick or challenging to the existing order. <br /><br />I trust there will be a recommendation coming up about how to find the balance between accepting the trivial and standing up for what seems important. <br /><br />Asking us, as individual and presumably moral, individuals to ignore thieves and lepers and vandals and any who make our communities less livable is a stretch too far, I think. On the other hand, treating those who cut in line as criminals is wrong; and it's comparably wrong to make too big a deal of those scolds -- "Karens" -- who set themselves up as arbiters and enforcers of trivial norms. J Melcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14349242761775214765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-6170761249899110122022-01-15T01:08:49.991-05:002022-01-15T01:08:49.991-05:00Grim,
I am enjoying these- for some reason they s...Grim,<br /> I am enjoying these- for some reason they speak to me.<br /><br />Like repairing an engine- you know something is likely to go sideways, don't know what it might be, but when the bolt snaps off or the timing chain drops into the crankcase, it is "expected", why get upset?<br /><br /> ravennoreply@blogger.com