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Empathy And Fellow Feeling Form The Very Basis Of Morality. The Capacities For Empathy, For Feeling Responsibility Toward Others And For Reaching Out To Help Them Can Be Stunted Or Undermined Early On, Depending On A Child's Experiences In The Home And Neighborhood. It Becomes Too Easy To Turn Our Backs On Fellow Human Beings... To Have 'compassion Fatigue.' Technology, We Are Learning, Is Not Neutral.

While All Deception Requires Secrecy, All Secrecy Is Not Meant To Deceive.

Sitting Too Long In Front Of A Screen Proves Both Physically And Psychologically Debilitating, No Matter How Innocuous Or Even Beneficial The Programs May Be.

Are People The Best Judges Of Their Own Happiness, Or Outsiders? In Defining Happiness, Should We Think Of Entire Lives Or Of Shorter Periods Such As Moments, Days, Or Years? And To What Extent Are Virtue And Happiness Linked?

Regardless Of How Often The Appetite For Entertainment Violence Becomes Addictive, Increased Exposure Does Risk Further Desensitizing Viewers. And The Element Of Pleasure That They Derive May Lead Them To Regard Violence As A More Acceptable Way Of Dealing With Problems, And Victimization As More Tolerable So Long As It Befalls Others, Not Themselves.