Comments for Eve Yohalem http://www.eveyohalem.com Author Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Shhhh…Let me tell you a secret. by iEleen http://www.eveyohalem.com/2011/12/16/shhhh-let-me-tell-you-a-secret/#comment-187 iEleen Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:26:04 +0000 http://www.eveyohalem.com/?p=534#comment-187 Very few love and respect you more than I, but I think on this point, I must respectfully disagree. The ability to sleep anywhere, anytime, that has not been clinically diagnosed as narcolepsy, is indeed a powerful gift. Just ask any of us who don't have it!!! Very few love and respect you more than I, but I think on this point, I must respectfully disagree. The ability to sleep anywhere, anytime, that has not been clinically diagnosed as narcolepsy, is indeed a powerful gift. Just ask any of us who don’t have it!!!

]]> Comment on I have magic powers. by Shhhh…Let me tell you a secret. « Eve Yohalem http://www.eveyohalem.com/2011/11/30/i-have-magic-powers/#comment-185 Shhhh…Let me tell you a secret. « Eve Yohalem Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:00:04 +0000 http://www.eveyohalem.com/?p=525#comment-185 [...] I have magic powers. [...] [...] I have magic powers. [...]

]]> Comment on Why write ebooks for kids when kids don’t read ebooks? by Susan Perl http://www.eveyohalem.com/2011/10/03/why-write-ebooks-for-kids-when-kids-don%e2%80%99t-read-ebooks-3/#comment-91 Susan Perl Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:46:49 +0000 http://eveyohalem.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-91 Last night our 9 year old son had a breakthrough via his first time using the Kindle to read "Grandpa Hates The Bird." He is passionate about Sports and Math. He does very little reading that is not assigned. As he read and read, we heard mutterings from the couch "This is great" and "Oh My God" and again "This is great." I asked "What's great?" "The stories and I'm at 63%" and then later "Oh no, I'm at 79%, Only 21% to go. How do you spell Eve's last name? I need to get more." Last night our 9 year old son had a breakthrough via his first time using the Kindle to read “Grandpa Hates The Bird.” He is passionate about Sports and Math. He does very little reading that is not assigned. As he read and read, we heard mutterings from the couch “This is great” and “Oh My God” and again “This is great.”

I asked “What’s great?”
“The stories and I’m at 63%”
and then later
“Oh no, I’m at 79%, Only 21% to go.
How do you spell Eve’s last name?
I need to get more.”

]]> Comment on Is obedience overrated? by eveyohalem http://www.eveyohalem.com/2011/10/12/is-obedience-overrated/#comment-85 eveyohalem Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:43:32 +0000 http://eveyohalem.wordpress.com/?p=186#comment-85 More muppets = world peace. More muppets = world peace.

]]> Comment on Is obedience overrated? by Elizabeth O'Donnell http://www.eveyohalem.com/2011/10/12/is-obedience-overrated/#comment-84 Elizabeth O'Donnell Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:05:04 +0000 http://eveyohalem.wordpress.com/?p=186#comment-84 I read this today and it made me think of this post...it's not the same thing...but it's close. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/your-money/why-doing-the-ethical-thing-isnt-automatic.html?src=recg So then I watched this... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/magazine/bret-mckenzie-muppets.html?ref=magazine I read this today and it made me think of this post…it’s not the same thing…but it’s close.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/your-money/why-doing-the-ethical-thing-isnt-automatic.html?src=recg

So then I watched this…

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/magazine/bret-mckenzie-muppets.html?ref=magazine

]]> Comment on Why write ebooks for kids when kids don’t read ebooks? by KC Remington http://www.eveyohalem.com/2011/10/03/why-write-ebooks-for-kids-when-kids-don%e2%80%99t-read-ebooks-3/#comment-32 KC Remington Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:28:39 +0000 http://eveyohalem.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-32 "IN KIDS WE TRUST!" ... :) (see my 18 'Webbster & Button' children's stories on Amazon also courtesy of Telemachus Press ~ 'Find a Home' and 'The Crows' are the first and second.) Rock on, KC BlackhawkVideo@windstream.net “IN KIDS WE TRUST!” … :)

(see my 18 ‘Webbster & Button’ children’s stories on Amazon also courtesy of Telemachus Press ~ ‘Find a Home’ and ‘The Crows’ are the first and second.)

Rock on,
KC
BlackhawkVideo@windstream.net

]]> Comment on Is obedience overrated? by eveyohalem http://www.eveyohalem.com/2011/10/12/is-obedience-overrated/#comment-31 eveyohalem Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:50:39 +0000 http://eveyohalem.wordpress.com/?p=186#comment-31 Alex, You bring up an interesting conundrum. I believe that one of the things that makes us human is our ability to distinguish among shades of gray – our ability to rationalize and think relatively. Yet, as you point out, the Milgram experiments show that our behavior is more humane when we think in absolutes. It’s also more inhumane – I tremble to think of a legal, or moral, system that doesn’t take into account extenuating circumstances. Round and round and round we go… Alex,

You bring up an interesting conundrum. I believe that one of the things that makes us human is our ability to distinguish among shades of gray – our ability to rationalize and think relatively. Yet, as you point out, the Milgram experiments show that our behavior is more humane when we think in absolutes. It’s also more inhumane – I tremble to think of a legal, or moral, system that doesn’t take into account extenuating circumstances.

Round and round and round we go…

]]> Comment on Is obedience overrated? by Alexander Polsky http://www.eveyohalem.com/2011/10/12/is-obedience-overrated/#comment-30 Alexander Polsky Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:48:58 +0000 http://eveyohalem.wordpress.com/?p=186#comment-30 Humans are social primates. Social primates all have hierarchies, some stronger, some weaker. Useful first stop is Jared Diamond’s “The Third Chimpanzee” One of the most interesting points about the Milgram experiment is those who refused. It turns out that absolute values provide a better guard against this kind of sadism than do relativism and rationalism. “Moderate” folks who rationalized a “little shock” were already down the slippery slope, and ended up convinced to administer what they thought to be dangerous shocks. Humans with bright line values are more likely to predictably obey them than those with grey lines. That _is_ an important lesson in how we teach values , but the problem is that as a rationalist, we like the freedom to calculate the appropriate solution in each circumstance. That freedom comes with a loss in reliability. Humans are social primates. Social primates all have hierarchies, some stronger, some weaker. Useful first stop is Jared Diamond’s “The Third Chimpanzee”

One of the most interesting points about the Milgram experiment is those who refused. It turns out that absolute values provide a better guard against this kind of sadism than do relativism and rationalism. “Moderate” folks who rationalized a “little shock” were already down the slippery slope, and ended up convinced to administer what they thought to be dangerous shocks.

Humans with bright line values are more likely to predictably obey them than those with grey lines. That _is_ an important lesson in how we teach values , but the problem is that as a rationalist, we like the freedom to calculate the appropriate solution in each circumstance. That freedom comes with a loss in reliability.

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