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LuckyR wrote: January 21st, 2023, 6:12 pm
Sculptor1 wrote: January 21st, 2023, 7:39 am
LuckyR wrote: January 21st, 2023, 3:47 am Criminality and justification are not points along the same axis in my way of understanding. Criminality is a legal descriptor on whether someone has been proven to have broken certain rules (laws). Of course all rules (laws) are written prospectively with the understanding that following said rules USUALLY is better (creates less harm) than not following the rules.
The big question is harm to whom or to what.
Many laws are codified to protect the interests of the rulers or the state, often to the detriment of the people.
However no rule can take into account every conceivable set of circumstances surrounding an action, so of course every rule can have a set of circumstances where violating the rule creates less harm than following the rule (which is the justification).
Very true. Too many laws favor lawmakers or those who pay bribes to lawmakers. Though justifiable law breaking exists to the dispassionate observer.
I think bribes and corruption go along with not the laws themselves but the people who take decisions and exert punishments in the name of those laws. It is similar to the religious leaders who work towards their personal agendas while being in the cloak of the religions. Although the religions get the blame in such occasions, it is not the religions are to be blamed, but those corrupted religious leaders.
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Sushan wrote: January 23rd, 2023, 12:41 am
Sculptor1 wrote: January 21st, 2023, 7:36 am
Unique wrote: January 16th, 2023, 1:28 am When we talk about justifiable crimes, I think there is something as justifiable crimes. When an action is taken on the grounds of self-defense to protect oneself against dangers, even if such actions are crimes, I think to a point it is justifiable.
The right to strike and protest have been restricted by the UK government. This alone is a reason to brake a law.
There is no right to strike under UK law. However, under Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of their interests. This right can be restricted by law, but only so far as is necessary in a democratic society, e.g. for the protection of security or public safety, or the prevention of crime. Violent protest is not protected.
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-facts/is-ther ... in-the-uk/

Everyone has the right to peaceful protest. While there is no specific right in law, it is enshrined in the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, protected respectively under articles 10 and 11 of the European convention on human rights, which was directly incorporated into domestic British law by the Human Rights Act.

Limitations to the right to protest in England and Wales were set out in the Public Order Act 1986 and this year in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (PCSC). There is also a common law offence of breach of the peace, and an offence of the same name exists separately in Scotland, where it is also a statutory offence under section 38 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010. Northern Ireland has its own legislation governing protests – the Public Order (Northern Ireland) Order 1987, which includes conditions that can be imposed on public processions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... -in-the-uk

Please correct me if I am wrong. I understand that you are unhappy about the limitations for striking and protesting. But I think these things should have some limits for the betterment of the general public. What do you say?
I say that not having a formal right to strike is not the same as being denied or having that right restricted.
The right exists in the absence of any law to restrict.
Since the absence of a law does not imply a lack of natural right.
You objection is pedantic and not relevant.
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Sushan wrote: January 23rd, 2023, 1:12 am
Sculptor1 wrote: January 21st, 2023, 7:39 am
LuckyR wrote: January 21st, 2023, 3:47 am Criminality and justification are not points along the same axis in my way of understanding. Criminality is a legal descriptor on whether someone has been proven to have broken certain rules (laws). Of course all rules (laws) are written prospectively with the understanding that following said rules USUALLY is better (creates less harm) than not following the rules.
The big question is harm to whom or to what.
Many laws are codified to protect the interests of the rulers or the state, often to the detriment of the people.
However no rule can take into account every conceivable set of circumstances surrounding an action, so of course every rule can have a set of circumstances where violating the rule creates less harm than following the rule (which is the justification).
I am not very sure about that. Maybe that was the practice in the ancient era in which the kings and the land owners ruled the majority. But nowadays I think the rules are made for the betterment of the society. And in the occasions in which the rules are in favor of the rulers instead of the society, people go on and change them. I am not stating that this is a perfect world. But the society and the less privileged ones have a value for their voice nowadays more than what it had in the past.
You are laughably wrong here and you are assuming that democracy is effective.
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John K Danenbarger wrote:...certain crimes are justifiable if they are committed in order to remove obstacles to the higher goals of 'extraordinary' men. (Crime and Punishment - Wikipedia)
Sushan wrote: January 13th, 2023, 4:59 pm Can we justify crimes if the ultimate aim was extraordinary? Will a crime be a 'non-crime' if it was used to exert justice?
Pattern-chaser wrote: January 15th, 2023, 9:25 am In my opinion — and I think it must be a mere opinion, as I see this as a moral question —

IF ((Action = NOT(UnJust) AND (HarmDoneByAction = NONE)) THEN (Action IS_NOT_A Crime).

Obviously, this is dependent on what we understand by "just" or "unjust" (and how we see 'harm')...
Sushan wrote: January 20th, 2023, 11:51 pm Seems like you are a computer programmer. :roll:
Guilty as charged. 😉 The way I expressed it is the clearest exposition I could come up with. 😉


Sushan wrote: January 20th, 2023, 11:51 pm Let's take a robbery as an example. The victim is being harmed and the act is unjust. So the victim gets the right to go to courts seeking justice.
Fair enough.


Sushan wrote: January 20th, 2023, 11:51 pm Let's take an incident in which a beggar is being killed by someone. The beggar had no family and no one else was harmed by the action. Whether the action was just or unjust remains as a question. But the state will file a case and look for the murderer since the action is taken as an act against the government.
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The beggar was harmed! This would seem to make the killing unjust, wouldn't it? 🤔


Sushan wrote: January 20th, 2023, 11:51 pm Law and legal jurisdiction is very much complex and confusing.
I don't think it need be. If we move away from laws that mandate this sentence for that crime, and concentrate on delivering justice, matters become much simpler. Laws should be guidelines, not unbreakable rules.
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Unique wrote: January 16th, 2023, 1:28 am When we talk about justifiable crimes, I think there is something as justifiable crimes. When an action is taken on the grounds of self-defense to protect oneself against dangers, even if such actions are crimes, I think to a point it is justifiable.
Pattern-chaser wrote: January 18th, 2023, 9:50 am I think this is just a matter of how we use the word. I would say that if an action is justifiable, it isn't a crime. But I see the point you're making, and the way you are using "crime", and I agree with what you're saying.
Sushan wrote: January 21st, 2023, 12:43 am I think the words 'crime' and 'justifiable' should be kept seperately. A crime does not become non-crime just because the action is justifiable. Even if you kill someone in self-defence, killing will still be a crime. Only the intention will decide whether you will be punished or will be able to get away.
I think an alleged 'crime' does become a non-crime if the action is justifiable.

But, as I have commented already, it depends on how we use the word "crime". Here, I'm using crime one way, and you are using it another. I don't think we can, could, or should conclude that either one of us is right in this. But equally, let's not get distracted by a simple difference in word usage! 👍🙂
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LuckyR wrote: January 21st, 2023, 3:47 am Criminality and justification are not points along the same axis in my way of understanding. Criminality is a legal descriptor on whether someone has been proven to have broken certain rules (laws). Of course all rules (laws) are written prospectively with the understanding that following said rules USUALLY is better (creates less harm) than not following the rules. However no rule can take into account every conceivable set of circumstances surrounding an action, so of course every rule can have a set of circumstances where violating the rule creates less harm than following the rule (which is the justification).
👍👏 This is why I think laws should be guidelines, presented to courts as such, allowing courts the freedom to dispense justice for each individual case. Murder is mostly wrong, on that we all agree. But there are also circumstances in which killing someone was the correct — or the least incorrect — course of action. I think we can all agree on that, too. Justice is what matters; breaking a law is not necessarily undesirable or unacceptable.
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Sculptor1 wrote: January 23rd, 2023, 7:57 am
Sushan wrote: January 23rd, 2023, 12:41 am
Sculptor1 wrote: January 21st, 2023, 7:36 am
Unique wrote: January 16th, 2023, 1:28 am When we talk about justifiable crimes, I think there is something as justifiable crimes. When an action is taken on the grounds of self-defense to protect oneself against dangers, even if such actions are crimes, I think to a point it is justifiable.
The right to strike and protest have been restricted by the UK government. This alone is a reason to brake a law.
There is no right to strike under UK law. However, under Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of their interests. This right can be restricted by law, but only so far as is necessary in a democratic society, e.g. for the protection of security or public safety, or the prevention of crime. Violent protest is not protected.
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-facts/is-ther ... in-the-uk/

Everyone has the right to peaceful protest. While there is no specific right in law, it is enshrined in the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, protected respectively under articles 10 and 11 of the European convention on human rights, which was directly incorporated into domestic British law by the Human Rights Act.

Limitations to the right to protest in England and Wales were set out in the Public Order Act 1986 and this year in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (PCSC). There is also a common law offence of breach of the peace, and an offence of the same name exists separately in Scotland, where it is also a statutory offence under section 38 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010. Northern Ireland has its own legislation governing protests – the Public Order (Northern Ireland) Order 1987, which includes conditions that can be imposed on public processions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... -in-the-uk

Please correct me if I am wrong. I understand that you are unhappy about the limitations for striking and protesting. But I think these things should have some limits for the betterment of the general public. What do you say?
I say that not having a formal right to strike is not the same as being denied or having that right restricted.
The right exists in the absence of any law to restrict.
Since the absence of a law does not imply a lack of natural right.
You objection is pedantic and not relevant.
Having no law to restrict something does not imply that we have the right to do that. I am not a law expert. But I think that there is no law restricting going nude to public places. But that does not give anyone the right to do so. And if you do so, the law enforcing authorities will take away you under laws like disturbing the public. And the same applies to striking and protests as well. Even though there were no laws restricting especially the strikes and protests, the law enforcing authorities will have abundant ways and means to interrupt such things using other rules and laws in the law books.
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Sculptor1 wrote: January 23rd, 2023, 7:58 am
Sushan wrote: January 23rd, 2023, 1:12 am
Sculptor1 wrote: January 21st, 2023, 7:39 am
LuckyR wrote: January 21st, 2023, 3:47 am Criminality and justification are not points along the same axis in my way of understanding. Criminality is a legal descriptor on whether someone has been proven to have broken certain rules (laws). Of course all rules (laws) are written prospectively with the understanding that following said rules USUALLY is better (creates less harm) than not following the rules.
The big question is harm to whom or to what.
Many laws are codified to protect the interests of the rulers or the state, often to the detriment of the people.
However no rule can take into account every conceivable set of circumstances surrounding an action, so of course every rule can have a set of circumstances where violating the rule creates less harm than following the rule (which is the justification).
I am not very sure about that. Maybe that was the practice in the ancient era in which the kings and the land owners ruled the majority. But nowadays I think the rules are made for the betterment of the society. And in the occasions in which the rules are in favor of the rulers instead of the society, people go on and change them. I am not stating that this is a perfect world. But the society and the less privileged ones have a value for their voice nowadays more than what it had in the past.
You are laughably wrong here and you are assuming that democracy is effective.
:)
Democracy may not effective as it could have been. But to compare the era with democracy with the era without democracy, we should have lived in that previous era, which I assume that neither you nor me have done. But from the history lessons that I have learned (I know that you are an expert in history compared to me, and I think you may have heard these too), I know that there was far less democracy under the autocratic leaders. So I think we should understand and appreciate what we are having in our hands before demanding for more and changes.
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Pattern-chaser wrote: January 23rd, 2023, 11:00 am
John K Danenbarger wrote:...certain crimes are justifiable if they are committed in order to remove obstacles to the higher goals of 'extraordinary' men. (Crime and Punishment - Wikipedia)
Sushan wrote: January 13th, 2023, 4:59 pm Can we justify crimes if the ultimate aim was extraordinary? Will a crime be a 'non-crime' if it was used to exert justice?
Pattern-chaser wrote: January 15th, 2023, 9:25 am In my opinion — and I think it must be a mere opinion, as I see this as a moral question —

IF ((Action = NOT(UnJust) AND (HarmDoneByAction = NONE)) THEN (Action IS_NOT_A Crime).

Obviously, this is dependent on what we understand by "just" or "unjust" (and how we see 'harm')...
Sushan wrote: January 20th, 2023, 11:51 pm Seems like you are a computer programmer. :roll:
Guilty as charged. 😉 The way I expressed it is the clearest exposition I could come up with. 😉


Sushan wrote: January 20th, 2023, 11:51 pm Let's take a robbery as an example. The victim is being harmed and the act is unjust. So the victim gets the right to go to courts seeking justice.
Fair enough.


Sushan wrote: January 20th, 2023, 11:51 pm Let's take an incident in which a beggar is being killed by someone. The beggar had no family and no one else was harmed by the action. Whether the action was just or unjust remains as a question. But the state will file a case and look for the murderer since the action is taken as an act against the government.
🤔🤔🤔

The beggar was harmed! This would seem to make the killing unjust, wouldn't it? 🤔


Sushan wrote: January 20th, 2023, 11:51 pm Law and legal jurisdiction is very much complex and confusing.
I don't think it need be. If we move away from laws that mandate this sentence for that crime, and concentrate on delivering justice, matters become much simpler. Laws should be guidelines, not unbreakable rules.
Yes, the beggar was harmed. But he is already dead and there is no more a victim of that unjust. So whether it is just or unjust, there is no post event affect. Yet, the state choose to file a case against the murderer. And if this was the very first murder (or even the braking of law) of that murderer, and if it was the last of him, he would face unjust by being punished for that crime.

Yes, rules should be guidelines. But the danger of that is, we humans easily break the existing rules. So there will not be any need to even think about what might happen to guidelines. A clever lawyer can reduce the punishment of his client who is a known serial killer, while we have a set of rules which are written in books. Imagine what will happen if all those were guidelines.

And for the Judge (or the jury) it will be very difficult to make a final decision, especially a decision about the punishment, as it will be a own decision of that judge rather than exercising an already set punishment.
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Pattern-chaser wrote: January 23rd, 2023, 11:06 am
Unique wrote: January 16th, 2023, 1:28 am When we talk about justifiable crimes, I think there is something as justifiable crimes. When an action is taken on the grounds of self-defense to protect oneself against dangers, even if such actions are crimes, I think to a point it is justifiable.
Pattern-chaser wrote: January 18th, 2023, 9:50 am I think this is just a matter of how we use the word. I would say that if an action is justifiable, it isn't a crime. But I see the point you're making, and the way you are using "crime", and I agree with what you're saying.
Sushan wrote: January 21st, 2023, 12:43 am I think the words 'crime' and 'justifiable' should be kept seperately. A crime does not become non-crime just because the action is justifiable. Even if you kill someone in self-defence, killing will still be a crime. Only the intention will decide whether you will be punished or will be able to get away.
I think an alleged 'crime' does become a non-crime if the action is justifiable.

But, as I have commented already, it depends on how we use the word "crime". Here, I'm using crime one way, and you are using it another. I don't think we can, could, or should conclude that either one of us is right in this. But equally, let's not get distracted by a simple difference in word usage! 👍🙂
Well, the two of us can just speak our minds and be happy about that, since we are just discussing a topic in a forum. But when it comes the practice of law, the words are the weapons that the lawyers use to twist the cases. By including, excluding, changing, twisting words, they give magical outcomes to the cases that are argued in the courts. Yes, the action will be a non-crime when it is justified in the courts, but the action itself will be a crime. Will you easily forget if someone was killed by your hands while trying to protect yourself? The court will free you. But your heart will not free you since the action was a crime and nothing can change that.
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Pattern-chaser wrote: January 23rd, 2023, 11:11 am
LuckyR wrote: January 21st, 2023, 3:47 am Criminality and justification are not points along the same axis in my way of understanding. Criminality is a legal descriptor on whether someone has been proven to have broken certain rules (laws). Of course all rules (laws) are written prospectively with the understanding that following said rules USUALLY is better (creates less harm) than not following the rules. However no rule can take into account every conceivable set of circumstances surrounding an action, so of course every rule can have a set of circumstances where violating the rule creates less harm than following the rule (which is the justification).
👍👏 This is why I think laws should be guidelines, presented to courts as such, allowing courts the freedom to dispense justice for each individual case. Murder is mostly wrong, on that we all agree. But there are also circumstances in which killing someone was the correct — or the least incorrect — course of action. I think we can all agree on that, too. Justice is what matters; breaking a law is not necessarily undesirable or unacceptable.
I can agree with both of you. Maybe this is my obsessive personality speaking, but I think it is easy to handle situations when everything is clearly written down. If we see something missing or necessary to amend while taking action, then we have to update such things on the go. That is what happens in the 'Law World' when the judges quote earlier court decisions regarding similar cases when the law books are inadequate to give a decision on some cases. Guidelines will be good and flexible, but there will be many difficulties when we try to act by them.
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Sushan wrote: January 27th, 2023, 7:29 am
Sculptor1 wrote: January 23rd, 2023, 7:57 am
Sushan wrote: January 23rd, 2023, 12:41 am
Sculptor1 wrote: January 21st, 2023, 7:36 am

The right to strike and protest have been restricted by the UK government. This alone is a reason to brake a law.
There is no right to strike under UK law. However, under Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of their interests. This right can be restricted by law, but only so far as is necessary in a democratic society, e.g. for the protection of security or public safety, or the prevention of crime. Violent protest is not protected.
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-facts/is-ther ... in-the-uk/

Everyone has the right to peaceful protest. While there is no specific right in law, it is enshrined in the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, protected respectively under articles 10 and 11 of the European convention on human rights, which was directly incorporated into domestic British law by the Human Rights Act.

Limitations to the right to protest in England and Wales were set out in the Public Order Act 1986 and this year in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (PCSC). There is also a common law offence of breach of the peace, and an offence of the same name exists separately in Scotland, where it is also a statutory offence under section 38 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010. Northern Ireland has its own legislation governing protests – the Public Order (Northern Ireland) Order 1987, which includes conditions that can be imposed on public processions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... -in-the-uk

Please correct me if I am wrong. I understand that you are unhappy about the limitations for striking and protesting. But I think these things should have some limits for the betterment of the general public. What do you say?
I say that not having a formal right to strike is not the same as being denied or having that right restricted.
The right exists in the absence of any law to restrict.
Since the absence of a law does not imply a lack of natural right.
You objection is pedantic and not relevant.
Having no law to restrict something does not imply that we have the right to do that.
Have you not heard of natural rights?
If you want to claim that a person does not have a natural right to strike you are effectively claiming that an authority has to right to enforced labour.


I am not a law expert. But I think that there is no law restricting going nude to public places.
Actually there is.
But that does not give anyone the right to do so.
Whether they have a natural right to do so has nothing to do with the law.
And if you do so, the law enforcing authorities will take away you under laws like disturbing the public. And the same applies to striking and protests as well. Even though there were no laws restricting especially the strikes and protests, the law enforcing authorities will have abundant ways and means to interrupt such things using other rules and laws in the law books.
I think you might want to stand back and think more carefully about the differences between law and right.
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Sushan wrote: January 27th, 2023, 7:34 am
Sculptor1 wrote: January 23rd, 2023, 7:58 am
Sushan wrote: January 23rd, 2023, 1:12 am
Sculptor1 wrote: January 21st, 2023, 7:39 am
The big question is harm to whom or to what.
Many laws are codified to protect the interests of the rulers or the state, often to the detriment of the people.
I am not very sure about that. Maybe that was the practice in the ancient era in which the kings and the land owners ruled the majority. But nowadays I think the rules are made for the betterment of the society. And in the occasions in which the rules are in favor of the rulers instead of the society, people go on and change them. I am not stating that this is a perfect world. But the society and the less privileged ones have a value for their voice nowadays more than what it had in the past.
You are laughably wrong here and you are assuming that democracy is effective.
:)
Democracy may not effective as it could have been. But to compare the era with democracy with the era without democracy, we should have lived in that previous era, which I assume that neither you nor me have done. But from the history lessons that I have learned (I know that you are an expert in history compared to me, and I think you may have heard these too), I know that there was far less democracy under the autocratic leaders. So I think we should understand and appreciate what we are having in our hands before demanding for more and changes.
You might want to look at some anthropology. The era without democracy; customary beliefs did more to protect the group, that the powerful individuals within it.
For the vast majority of human history we have lived without democracy, but with custom and tradition, where "law" was about praxis and not threat of violence, which we "enjoy" today.
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Sushan wrote: January 20th, 2023, 11:51 pm Let's take an incident in which a beggar is being killed by someone. The beggar had no family and no one else was harmed by the action. Whether the action was just or unjust remains as a question. But the state will file a case and look for the murderer since the action is taken as an act against the government.
Pattern-chaser wrote: January 23rd, 2023, 11:00 am 🤔🤔🤔

The beggar was harmed! This would seem to make the killing unjust, wouldn't it? 🤔
Sushan wrote: January 27th, 2023, 7:43 am Yes, the beggar was harmed. But he is already dead and there is no more a victim of that unjust. So whether it is just or unjust, there is no post event affect.
Are you really saying that murder is not — cannot be — a crime, because the victim cannot stand up in a court to accuse their killer? Or because the injustice somehow fades away with the victim's death?
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Sushan wrote: January 27th, 2023, 7:43 am Yes, rules should be guidelines. But the danger of that is, we humans easily break the existing rules. So there will not be any need to even think about what might happen to guidelines. A clever lawyer can reduce the punishment of his client who is a known serial killer, while we have a set of rules which are written in books. Imagine what will happen if all those were guidelines.
Yes, let's imagine. The clever lawyer will have no loopholes to use to find his guilty client innocent. Such lawyers wrestle with the law, as it is written — sometimes even down to the interpretation of a single word — to find a way for their guilty clients to avoid justice. If these laws were simply guidelines in the administration of justice, the killer in your example would surely be removed from circulation, to a place where they can harm no more innocents.

So yes, let's imagine. 👍
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Rediscovering the Wisdom of Human Nature: How Civilization Destroys Happiness

Rediscovering the Wisdom of Human Nature: How Civilization Destroys Happiness
by Chet Shupe
March 2023

The Unfakeable Code®

The Unfakeable Code®
by Tony Jeton Selimi
April 2023

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
by Alan Watts
May 2023

Killing Abel

Killing Abel
by Michael Tieman
June 2023

Reconfigurement: Reconfiguring Your Life at Any Stage and Planning Ahead

Reconfigurement: Reconfiguring Your Life at Any Stage and Planning Ahead
by E. Alan Fleischauer
July 2023

First Survivor: The Impossible Childhood Cancer Breakthrough

First Survivor: The Impossible Childhood Cancer Breakthrough
by Mark Unger
August 2023

Predictably Irrational

Predictably Irrational
by Dan Ariely
September 2023

Artwords

Artwords
by Beatriz M. Robles
November 2023

Fireproof Happiness: Extinguishing Anxiety & Igniting Hope

Fireproof Happiness: Extinguishing Anxiety & Igniting Hope
by Dr. Randy Ross
December 2023

Beyond the Golden Door: Seeing the American Dream Through an Immigrant's Eyes

Beyond the Golden Door: Seeing the American Dream Through an Immigrant's Eyes
by Ali Master
February 2024

2022 Philosophy Books of the Month

Emotional Intelligence At Work

Emotional Intelligence At Work
by Richard M Contino & Penelope J Holt
January 2022

Free Will, Do You Have It?

Free Will, Do You Have It?
by Albertus Kral
February 2022

My Enemy in Vietnam

My Enemy in Vietnam
by Billy Springer
March 2022

2X2 on the Ark

2X2 on the Ark
by Mary J Giuffra, PhD
April 2022

The Maestro Monologue

The Maestro Monologue
by Rob White
May 2022

What Makes America Great

What Makes America Great
by Bob Dowell
June 2022

The Truth Is Beyond Belief!

The Truth Is Beyond Belief!
by Jerry Durr
July 2022

Living in Color

Living in Color
by Mike Murphy
August 2022 (tentative)

The Not So Great American Novel

The Not So Great American Novel
by James E Doucette
September 2022

Mary Jane Whiteley Coggeshall, Hicksite Quaker, Iowa/National Suffragette And Her Speeches

Mary Jane Whiteley Coggeshall, Hicksite Quaker, Iowa/National Suffragette And Her Speeches
by John N. (Jake) Ferris
October 2022

In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All

In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All
by Eckhart Aurelius Hughes
November 2022

The Smartest Person in the Room: The Root Cause and New Solution for Cybersecurity

The Smartest Person in the Room
by Christian Espinosa
December 2022

2021 Philosophy Books of the Month

The Biblical Clock: The Untold Secrets Linking the Universe and Humanity with God's Plan

The Biblical Clock
by Daniel Friedmann
March 2021

Wilderness Cry: A Scientific and Philosophical Approach to Understanding God and the Universe

Wilderness Cry
by Dr. Hilary L Hunt M.D.
April 2021

Fear Not, Dream Big, & Execute: Tools To Spark Your Dream And Ignite Your Follow-Through

Fear Not, Dream Big, & Execute
by Jeff Meyer
May 2021

Surviving the Business of Healthcare: Knowledge is Power

Surviving the Business of Healthcare
by Barbara Galutia Regis M.S. PA-C
June 2021

Winning the War on Cancer: The Epic Journey Towards a Natural Cure

Winning the War on Cancer
by Sylvie Beljanski
July 2021

Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream

Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream
by Dr Frank L Douglas
August 2021

If Life Stinks, Get Your Head Outta Your Buts

If Life Stinks, Get Your Head Outta Your Buts
by Mark L. Wdowiak
September 2021

The Preppers Medical Handbook

The Preppers Medical Handbook
by Dr. William W Forgey M.D.
October 2021

Natural Relief for Anxiety and Stress: A Practical Guide

Natural Relief for Anxiety and Stress
by Dr. Gustavo Kinrys, MD
November 2021

Dream For Peace: An Ambassador Memoir

Dream For Peace
by Dr. Ghoulem Berrah
December 2021