Content tagged with “morality” under “Stuff I Looked Up”
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“ It comes from the ancient Greek word ‘nomos,’ which means ‘custom’ or ‘law.’ The prefix ‘a-’ means this is the opposite of that. ”
“Blue laws are regulations that attempt to restrict activities or the sale of specific goods or services for religious reasons. The most common in the United States is the restriction of selling alcohol on Sundays in some municipalities. Rumor has it that the laws were originally printed on blue…”
“It was named for Thomas Bowdler. In the 1800s, he published The Family Shakespeare , which was a version of Shakespeare’s plays which he felt were more suitable for families. Wikipedia has some examples of his changes. In Hamlet, the death of Ophelia was called an accidental drowning, not a…”
“This is a range of things that are considered acceptable to society or an organization at any point in time. Things in the ‘middle’ of the Overton Window are very mainstream. As policies or customs get more esoteric, they might get to the edges of the Overton window, in which they’re considered…”
