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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for March 2025:

Classic:
To be able to destroy with a good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation" — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
— Aldous Huxley, introduction to a new edition of Samuel Butler's Erewhon, 1933.

Direct:
The eliminative impulse, when it seizes control of human behavior, is almost always denied, obscured by the pretense of serving some lofty goal.
— Section on Social Elimination, pp. 24-29 in Envy of Excellence, 2006.

Garden moment for March 2025:

In northern Florida, the long bloom season of Milky Widow's Thrill (Kalanchoe laxiflora) extemds through February and March. An odd-looking succulent and useful groundcover, it requires little care.

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