{"id":12445,"date":"2014-01-02T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/02\/humansofnewyork-i-cant-stand-moral\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T21:50:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T21:50:33","slug":"humansofnewyork-i-cant-stand-moral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/02\/humansofnewyork-i-cant-stand-moral\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12445 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/02\/humansofnewyork-i-cant-stand-moral\/attachment\/12446\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mysa52aMBC1qggwnvo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mysa52aMBC1qggwnvo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mysa52aMBC1qggwnvo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humansofnewyork.com\/post\/71976509483\/i-cant-stand-moral-absolutism-you-know-theres\">humansofnewyork<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;I can\u2019t stand moral absolutism. You know, there\u2019s always that guy who wants to point out that Martin Luther King cheated on his wife\u2014 as if he obviously couldn\u2019t have been a great person if he did something like that. Or someone will bring out an inspirational quote, and get you to agree, and then inform you that Hitler said it. As if a good thought couldn\u2019t come from Hitler. Moral absolutism keeps us from learning from the past. It\u2019s easy to say: \u2018Hitler was a demon. Nazis were all bad seeds.\u2019 That\u2019s simple. It\u2019s much harder to say: \u2018Is that humanity? Is that me?\u2019&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>humansofnewyork: &ldquo;I can\u2019t stand moral absolutism. You know, there\u2019s always that guy who wants to point out that Martin Luther King cheated on his wife\u2014 as if he obviously couldn\u2019t have been a great person if he did something like that. Or someone will bring out an inspirational quote, and get you to agree, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/02\/humansofnewyork-i-cant-stand-moral\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12447,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12445\/revisions\/12447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}