Query:
My students have just finished your book How and How Not to be Happy. They all really liked it. Several, some of them atheists, emailed me privately that the book helped them rethink their lives and values in a positive way. One told his mom to listen to it in the audio version.
Advertisements are well worth analyzing, since they make up so much of our education. Recently I passed by a billboard showing a photograph of people who had climbed ‘way up into the hills, and now, late in the day, were having a beer. The motto: “It isn't worth it unless you enjoy it.”
I’ll bet the flacks who composed the slogan never expected anyone to disagree.
Recently I came across this unintentionally revealing statement by actress Drew Barrymore. “Being with a woman,” she said, “is like exploring your own body, but through someone else".
Exactly.
Query:
In my country, lower caste Hindus feel inferior in relation to Brahmins, so that if a Brahmin were to rape the daughter of a lower caste Hindu, this would be considered a privilege. Doesn’t this cast doubt on the idea that conscience is available to all humans?
Query:
Professor, does the fact that children raised by wolves cannot function in human society show that there is no human nature?
