{"id":885,"date":"2015-04-25T12:32:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T17:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=885"},"modified":"2015-04-25T12:32:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T17:32:24","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“sometimes, the answers created to address the question of ‘why’ do
\nmore harm than good. There is a ‘because’ for every ‘why’. Some of
\nthese ‘becauses’ start wars. They beget atrocities. ‘Why’ is a
\nslippery question that lends itself to abuses of power.” – A.J.Axline<\/A><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With that caution in mind, I’ll go ahead and ask the question: Why do we do things?<\/p>\n

I think sometimes we do things just because everyone else is doing them. Many years ago I stopped short one day and wondered why I was drinking coffee. I didn’t really like<\/em> the stuff. The only reason I could find was because every one else around me was drinking coffee. So I quit. I realized that “because everyone else is doing it” is just about the worst reason in the world to do something.<\/p>\n

To be sure, there are things that a lot of people (if not everyone) do, but they should be done for their own merits. Breathing might be an extreme example: everyone does it, and I do it too, but I don’t do it just because everyone else is doing it; I have my own reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“sometimes, the answers created to address the question of ‘why’ do more harm than good. There is a ‘because’ for every ‘why’. Some of these ‘becauses’ start wars. They beget atrocities. ‘Why’ is a slippery question that lends itself to abuses of power.” – A.J.Axline With that caution in mind, I’ll go ahead and ask […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}