#values and virtues

[mafaldaknows]

He starts off with Heraclitus, right off the bat

[maybesimon]

I saw a post about teaching children consent, and one of the items discussed there was;

Child A: “I want to hug B”. Child B: “I don’t want to be hugged”. ParentL “A, you should listen to what B is saying, and only hug them when they want to be hugged, okay?”

Which is fine. But then I thought, okay, but what if it’s about playing together?

Child A: “I want to play with B”. Child B: “I don’t want to play with you”. Parent: "B, you shouldn’t be mean to A, go play together, okay?”

So, I think that this is not Truly about ~consent~, instead, it’s about values. If these discussions were truly about consent, the parent would respect B, and tell A to go bother someone else, but that doesn’t really happen in real life. 

We have the value of bodily integrity: “no-one can touch you if you don’t want them to”, but we also have a value of sharing, not excluding and being kind to others. 

So you can’t generalize these examples to one overarching “no-one can make you do anything that you don’t want to do”, and let children deduce “the rules of good living” from the top down, but instead we have the different values, their boundaries (my right to swing my fist etc.) and their conflict, like, the value of respecting authority vs right to make own decisions, value of being nice to others vs value of self-esteem and standing up for yourself. 

I would like there to be one universal value that we can teach people and then have the rest of the values flow down from there, but I don’t think that that’s possible.

[atiredsackofcrap]

Phantoms | Burning Down Alaska ft. Michael McGough

[satelliteswillburn]

Burning Down Alaska - Values & Virtues

[satelliteswillburn]

Burning Down Alaska - Phantoms

[sdouthwaitephoto-blog]

Values and Virtues

January 8, 2015

[kawaiijones]

This is seriously one of the best debut releases I’ve ever heard.

[richardthinks-org]

RICHCLUSIVE - Stream "Alone" By Values & Virtues

They say good things take time, that can also be said about Values and Virtues which is the brainchild of Bailey Olinger and Jason Tyler. Forming in early 2014, the group have been hard at work creating demos for the majority of the summer and today RichardThinks is proud to present the debut single from the duo. “Alone” is the first taste of what new listeners can expect from the group’s…

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