{"id":6129,"date":"2020-01-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2020-01-10T20:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T01:39:50","slug":"harken-to-david-yamane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/harken-to-david-yamane\/","title":{"rendered":"HARKEN TO DAVID YAMANE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Right at a year ago, <em>Psychology Today <\/em>published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/ethics-everyone\/201901\/virtue-and-guns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"essay (opens in a new tab)\">essay<\/a> which postulated that training seriously for armed self-defense was deleterious to empathy and weakened human character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following May, our friend David Yamane wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/ethics-everyone\/201905\/counterargument-virtue-and-guns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"this counterpoint (opens in a new tab)\">this counterpoint<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m with\nYamane on this.&nbsp; Read both of the above\nand tell us, here, what <em>you <\/em>think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right at a year ago, Psychology Today published an essay which postulated that training seriously for armed self-defense was deleterious to empathy and weakened human character. The following May, our friend David Yamane wrote this counterpoint. I\u2019m with Yamane on this.&nbsp; Read both of the above and tell us, here, what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6130,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions\/6130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}