The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlim...ited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative! All information should be free. Mistrust authority--promote decentralization. Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position. You can create art and beauty on a computer. Computers can change your life for the better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't hap...pen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the Catholic world, one can leave one's home and wander in various fields, but the tents of the Church are large, its compassio...n great, forgiveness easy. The loss of home in Protestant living is more difficult, yet not shattering, for each man is still a part of the entire community who are bound by an impersonal ethic of love. But in Jewish life, each home is an island unto itself, and the severing of the ties of family and tradition causes a tremor which can never be settled. The position of the Jews through the centuries, a stranger in every land, no voice, no ban their own, deepens this traumatic condition. For not only have they no home as their own as a people, but within each alien culture the strange gods tear away the sons and there is no home in the family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm a Sunday School teacher, and I've always known that the structure of law is founded on the Christian ethic that you shall love... the Lord your God and your neighbor as yourself--a very high and perfect standard. We all know the fallibility of man, and the contentions in society, as described by Reinhold Niebuhr and many others, don't permit us to achieve perfection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resour...ces of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Cath...olic countries, a successful person is a sinner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhe...red to what we might call the "breadwinner ethic."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--ar...e in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our kids will develop a work ethic only if we require them to pay a portion of the cost of some of the things they want. They'll l...earn to defer gratification the moment we stop routinely pulling out our wallets. And they'll learn self-discipline only if we care enough to enforce reasonable limits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an u...nwanted child or an oversize family is wrong--not ethically wrong, not against the rules, but morally wrong, all wrong, wrong like a thalidomide birth, wrong like taking a wrong step that will break your neck--if we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we'll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »