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All Is Forgiven

May 22, 2013 By Carl Pettit Leave a Comment

fate of hypocrites, political hypocrites, religious hypocrisy, love thy neighbor, forgiving hate

There’s a difference between true forgiveness and turning a blind eye.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, Root Down, The Good Life Tagged With: Bill Clinton, circle of hell hypocrisy, clemency, Dante, ethics, forgive genocide, Forgiveness, goodness, how to forgive, hypocrisy, Jesse Jackson, morality, partisanry, political scandal, President Obama, Sin, sympathy, un-american

Mrs. Antihero

May 14, 2013 By Chuck Ross 10 Comments

Skyler White, I hate Skyler White, why people hate Skyler White

We love to watch bad guys on TV. Why do we love to hate their wives almost as much?

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, Media Men, The Good Life Tagged With: adultery, AMC, angel of hearth, Anna Gunn, antihero dramas, antihero wives, antiheroes, anxiety, Barbara Ehrenreich, Boardwalk Empire, Bob Odenkirk, bonnie and clyde, Breaking Bad, bryan cranston, Carmela Soprano, conflict, couples therapy, crime dramas, dark side, Denise Du Vernay, dexter, domestic life, Don Draper, Elayne Rapping, ethics, facebook, fantasy life, Fuck Skyler White, gangsters and molls, hanna rosin, heroes, I Hate Lori Grimes, I hate Skyler White, infidelity, John Landgraf, judging, Julie Benz, Lori Grimes, Mad Men, madonna stereotype, male antiheroes, male identity, manhood, masculinity, media images of men, media portrayals of women, Melissa Rosenberg, Michael C. Hall, Michael Corleone, morality, Nora Ephron, pop philosophy, Sarah Wayne Callies, sexism on TV, sexist double standards, Showtime, Skyler White, sleepless in seattle, social media, The End of Men, The Godfather, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, TV on internet, TV wives, values, Vince Gilligan, walking dead, why people hate Skyler White, woman as angel of household, woman as moral center

All I Ever Wanted Was a Cheeseburger

May 10, 2013 By Dennis Danziger 13 Comments

cheeseburgers, fast food, American culture, teenage rebellion, religious rebellion, kashrut

Growing up Orthodox Jewish in Houston, Texas in the 1950s and ’60s, the mixing of dairy and meat was forbidden.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Food, Lifestyle, The Good Life, Trending Tagged With: 1950s, 1960s, allure of the forbidden, American culture, American food, cheeseburgers, commandments, Deuteronomy, eating kosher, ethics, Faith, Fast Food, forbidden fruit, growing up Orthodox, Houston, Jewish Americans, justice, kashrut, Orthodox Jewish, pets, religion, religious rebellion, repairing the world, teenage rebellion, Texas, tikkun olam

Easy Targets: The Top 10 in April on The Good Life

May 6, 2013 By Justin Cascio Leave a Comment

science, progress, nature, human species, life on Earth, empowerment, self actualization, relationships, love, peace

Brought to you by the people who make aiming high, look easy.

Filed Under: Featured Content, The Good Life Tagged With: Adam Gopnik, Battle of the Sexes, broadening minds, conservative, conversation, courage, dialogue, empowerment, ethics, gender wars, goodness, human species, ideology, internet, leadership, liberal, life on Earth, male privilege, men vs women, men's empowerment, Men's Issues, men's rights, mission, National Geographic, nature, open-minded, peace, Premium Membership, progress, progressive, progressive values, radical feminists, radicals, relationships, science, Scientific American, self-actualization, Sex and Relationships, take-down culture, values, zero sum game

UN Declares Force-Feeding Breach of International Law

May 2, 2013 By Abigail Ortlieb 2 Comments

Inmates on a hunger strike are being force-fed by US authorities at Guantanamo Bay jail.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: ethics, force-feeding, guantanamo, guantanamo bay, hunger strike, protest, terrorism, UN, United Nations

Why Not Aim for Greatness?

May 1, 2013 By Atalwin Pilon 1 Comment

We don’t aim for greatness and making a difference because we are too busy acting out our conditioning. Why not aim for more?

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Lifestyle, The Good Life Tagged With: advice, Atalwin Pilon, business, capitalism, dreams, ethics, goals, Greatness, hard work, internal drive, making a difference, male approval, money, Motivation, success, The Good Life

Open Thread: How Do You Know You’re Not The Good Guy?

April 5, 2013 By Noah Brand 6 Comments

An open discussion of moral heuristics and why killing Superman never works.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: are we the baddies, Captain America, Doctor Doom, ethics, heuristics, Mitchell and Webb, moral decisions, moral heuristics, morality, open thread, Racism, rules of thumb, self-justification, Superman

Open Thread: How Well Do You Separate Art and Artist?

March 29, 2013 By Noah Brand 6 Comments

You love the work; you hate the person who made it. How do you navigate that?

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: art, artists, cognitive dissonance, creators, death of the author, ethics, fandom, film, music, musicians, values, writers

From the Office Where Soldiers Kill

March 29, 2013 By Giovanni Barbieri 19 Comments

remotely piloted aircraft, military ethics, military technology

Does it take a special kind of courage to be a combat soldier—who pulls the trigger from an office, thousands of miles away?

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, Male Toughness, The Good Life, War Tagged With: Afghanistan, Bravery, civilization, Clint Eastwood, combat, combat soldiers, courage, Drones, ethics, Fighting, John Wayne, Las Vegas, manhood, masculinity, military ethics, military technology, Modern Warfare, remote control weaponry, remotely piloted aircraft, soldiers, taking risks, the Guardian, The Man in the Arena, Theodore Roosevelt, tough guys, U.S. military, War

The Ethics of Writing about Living People: 4/13

March 28, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 1 Comment

press, journalism, blogging, ethics, interviews, memoir, nonfiction, lives of famous people, call for submissions, The Good Life, male writers, men who write, The Good Men Project

Who owns a story?

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: blogging, Call for submissions, ethics, interviews, journalism, lives of famous people, male writers, Memoir, men who write, nonfiction, press, The Good Life, The Good Men Project

How Not to Cheat

March 23, 2013 By Bill Cloke 7 Comments

bride and groom, wedding, wedding ceremony, marriage, married, relationships, infidelity, cheating spouse, divorce, love, communication relationships, relationship therapist, marriage counselor, marriage advice infidelity

Marriage is simply hard work. But the good news is that attitude is everything.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Infidelity, The Good Life Tagged With: actions, anxiety, bachelorhood, betrayal, bride and groom, character, cheating spouse, communication relationships, destiny, Divorce, ethics, Families, Four Agreements, guilt, honesty, how to earn respect, infidelity, integrity, lying, marriage, marriage advice infidelity, marriage counselor, married, Married life, native-american history, negative emotions, relationship therapist, relationships, respect, Sex and Relationships, shame, single life, Toltec, values, wedding, wedding ceremony, workplace romance

Confessions of a Call Girl Client

March 21, 2013 By Andy Bodle 43 Comments

After Andy Bodle spent thousands of dollars on escorts he met online, he had one more powerful desire left unfulfilled

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content, The Good Life, Womanology Tagged With: Being a John, clients of prostitutes, clients of sex workers, confidence, courtship rituals, criminology, dating, ego, escort agencies, escort services, escorts, ethics, evolutionary psychology, free market, H. G. Loebner, Hollywood prostitution, insecure men, Johns, lesbian fantasies, London scene, marriage, men who pay for sex, Monica Prasad, online escort agencies, paying for companionship, Pretty Woman, Pretty Woman syndrome, prostitution, quarter-life crisis, red light district, research prostitution, Roger Matthews, sex, sex industry, sex work reality, sexual fantasies, single men, South Bank University London, stand up comedians, The Morality of Market Exchange, virtual red light district

Slaves and Robots

February 20, 2013 By Carl Pettit 9 Comments

If we invent a machine with a personality and desires, does it deserve freedom?

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Freedom, Historical Perspectives on Goodness, Root Down, The Good Life Tagged With: apocalypse, artificial intelligence, caste systems, consciousness, cyborgs, dangerous work, debt, developing world, employment, equality, ethics, Future, history, history of slavery, human rights, I Robot, illegal immigrants, indentured servitude, intelligence, Isaac Asimov, labor, migrant workers, modern slavery, morals, oppressed workers, philosophy, predictions, robots, science fiction, sentience, slavery, social justice, star wars, Sterling Archer, Technology, Terminator, The Matrix, trafficked labor, trafficked workers, undocumented workers, unmanned drones, virtual enslavement

Open Thread: When Is Deadly Force Justified?

February 6, 2013 By Noah Brand 1 Comment

At what point does it become appropriate to take a hatchet to someone?

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: assault, concealed weapons, crime, deadly force, ethics, hatchet, hippie, Kai, self defense, violence

“The snitch factor came into play. It’s called survival.”

January 27, 2013 By the Editors 1 Comment

This comment was by Tom B. on the post “See Something, Say Something: Should Bystanders be Forced to Report Crimes?”

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: Chicago, code of ethics, Comment of the Day, ethics, Fight, gang member, guns, New York City Subway, snitch, survival

Spoon Jackson: Writing From the Inside Out

January 27, 2013 By the Editors 3 Comments

Spoon Jackson has been behind bars since 1977, and trying to tell his story in poetry for much of that time. He spoke to the Good Men Project about what he does and why.

Filed Under: A&E, Poet Behind Bars, Prison, The Good Life Tagged With: crime, ethics, jailhouse poet, poetry, prison, reform, Spoon Jackson

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