{"id":15990,"date":"2019-12-23T21:12:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T02:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=15990"},"modified":"2019-12-23T21:12:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T02:12:16","slug":"morality-it-depends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=15990","title":{"rendered":"Morality?  It Depends."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The moral relativism displayed on the Mashpee Message is disturbing and enlightening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The insularity in this area seems &#8211; seems &#8211; to lead people, especially those who grew up here, to define right and wrong in their own way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone isn&#8217;t guilty of a crime if he&#8217;s likable.  Maybe as in Trump.  Certainly as in a bad cop who&#8217;s just left the Mashpee PD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I dropped off a basket of fruit to the police station today, with thanks for getting rid of a bad apple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can you have a civilization if a small group of people don&#8217;t respect social norms, as defined by our systems of laws?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darned if I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moral relativism displayed on the Mashpee Message is disturbing and enlightening.The insularity in this area seems &#8211; seems &#8211; to lead people, especially those who grew up here, to define right and wrong in their own way.Someone isn&#8217;t guilty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=15990\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15991,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990\/revisions\/15991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}