Just ... Think about It! (2nd Edn) - E-book - ePub

A collection of think pieces on a variety of topics: the environment (the notion of garbage, who owns the water, climate change as entertainment, . ), business (the limits of advertising, the notion of profit, .), rights and responsibilities (making certain words illegal, a concept of noise trespass, .), social issues (cultural anarchy, . ), ethics (what's wrong with selling your organs, euthanasia, should parents need to be licensed, .), education (the failure of .), sports (drugs, competition, .), religion (intelligent design, tax exemptions, .), and so on.
Note that this is an omnibus of the four Shit that Pisses Me Off volumes (minus the pieces that address sexism, which are anthologized in Sexist Shit that Pisses Me Off), plus over a hundred additional pieces, some of which were previously in The Philosophers' Magazine, Philosophy Now, Humanist in Canada, and Victoria Times Colonist, some of which are previously unpublished.***"An excellent collection of thought-provoking essays and short pieces.
Just Think about It! (2nd edn) covers an amazingly wide range of topics that really made me think and reconsider my life, my choices, and our business-as-usual world. So much of what we are bombarded with on social media and mass media, so-called 'op-eds, ' are just a lot of noise; this author provides something very different. These are thought pieces, succinctly and logically presented for one's consideration.
I came away feeling like I'd had a meaningful interaction and I really enjoyed and appreciated it." Karen Siddall"Just Think about It! (1st edn) covers a wide range of topics (too numerous to mention), and she has endeavoured to group them together by subject. Some are only a page long, others cover several pages and are more like essays, but they will all make you think!" James M. Fisher, The Miramichi Reader"Tittle's pieces are atypical of philosophical writing in the best ways: of interest to non-specialists, yet instructive and profound, yet entertaining." Ron Cooper, Professor of Philosophy"...
a passionate, stylistically-engaging writer ..." George