{"id":446,"date":"2024-11-07T04:55:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T04:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/07\/misplaced-moral-enthusiasm\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T04:55:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T04:55:39","slug":"misplaced-moral-enthusiasm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/07\/misplaced-moral-enthusiasm\/","title":{"rendered":"Misplaced Moral Enthusiasm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Languishing in the archives of one of the early versions of this weblog is a post bearing the above title. I shall have to resurrect, refurbish, and re-post it.&#0160; An excellent recent example of misplaced moral enthusiasm is well-described in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/spring-the-felon-kill-the-squirrel?skip=1\">Spring the Felon, Kill the Squirrel<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">This short article may help you leftists understand why you lost big yesterday.&#0160; Some forms of leftism are border-line respectable, but the wokeassery of Kamalism is not one of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Related<\/em>:&#0160; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2014\/12\/bernie-goetz-30-years-later.html\">From Gunman to Squirrel Man: Bernie Goetz Thirty Years Later<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">You do remember Bernie Goetz, don&#39;t you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">William James had a <a href=\"https:\/\/thomism.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/21\/the-squirrel-problem\/\">squirrel problem<\/a>. You are aware of it, are you not?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">If you like to think, you&#39;ll like my blog. If you don&#39;t like to think, you need my blog.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Languishing in the archives of one of the early versions of this weblog is a post bearing the above title. I shall have to resurrect, refurbish, and re-post it.&#0160; An excellent recent example of misplaced moral enthusiasm is well-described in Spring the Felon, Kill the Squirrel. This short article may help you leftists understand why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/07\/misplaced-moral-enthusiasm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Misplaced Moral Enthusiasm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310,71,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","category-varia","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}