{"id":7908,"date":"2022-03-15T19:10:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T09:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=7908"},"modified":"2022-03-15T19:10:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T09:10:56","slug":"dont-hand-power-to-dangerous-people-even-when-they-really-want-it-a-modest-buddhist-proposal-abc-religion-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/dont-hand-power-to-dangerous-people-even-when-they-really-want-it-a-modest-buddhist-proposal-abc-religion-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t hand power to dangerous people (even when they really want it) \u2014 a modest Buddhist proposal &#8211; ABC Religion &#038; Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If your protector\u2019s compassion and heedfulness are offline, he\u2019s not fundamentally committed to protecting <em>you<\/em>. Rather, he\u2019s using you for his own personal ends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/religion\/jonathan-gold-buddhist-proposal-for-keeping-sociopaths-from-pow\/13787074?sfmc_id=90563208&amp;utm_id=1830090&amp;utm_source=sfmc%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b&amp;utm_medium=email%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b&amp;utm_campaign=abc_specialist_religion_sfmc_20220314%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b&amp;utm_term=%e2%80%8b\">Don\u2019t hand power to dangerous people (even when they really want it) \u2014 a modest Buddhist proposal &#8211; ABC Religion &amp; Ethics.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your protector\u2019s compassion and heedfulness are offline, he\u2019s not fundamentally committed to protecting you. Rather, he\u2019s using you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440,4,464],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7909,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908\/revisions\/7909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}