Hmm. When you agree profoundly with more than half of the items on a list, and think the remainder of them are dangerously deluded, is it a lesson in frustration with or passive acceptance of ambiguity and paradox ( Read more... )

OH SNAPI've always thought so. Men aren't supposed to hit women anymore. Adults aren't supposed to hit other adults working for them, even if the role of one of them is that of servitude. People aren't even supposed to hit their pets anymore. Why are children, the most impressionable members of society, any different? How can you try and teach ( Read more... )

Advocating easier means of attaining a divorce: Children born into "unhappy and unhallowed connections" are "in the most solemn sense, of unlawful birth".

Hear, hear! Every child should be not only wholly wanted, but born to people who want each other, not people who abuse each other physically or emotionally.