{"id":1,"date":"2020-12-25T21:06:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T21:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaped.soe.udel.edu\/mpuzzles\/?p=1"},"modified":"2021-08-01T14:24:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T18:24:30","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaped.soe.udel.edu\/mpuzzles\/index.php\/2020\/12\/25\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Collection of Moral Puzzles-Stories for Children and Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here I want to present you with a collection of moral stories I wrote &#8212; moral puzzles to think about. In each story, characters make good and bad moral decisions and actions. Would you agree with them or disagree? Why? I wonder what you think about each of the stories &#8212; write it down in your comments. Also, please rate how much you like each story by giving them stars. Thanks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was a little boy, I was read Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s moral story &#8220;The plum seed&#8221; for little children &#8212; you can read here, it was translated from Russian as &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kidsworldfun.com\/short-stories\/the-plum-stone.php\" target=\"_blank\">The plum stone<\/a>.&#8221; As a child, I did not like this moral story &#8212; something bothered me about it. I didn&#8217;t know what. Later, I realized what was bothered me and I re-wrote Tolstoy&#8217;s moral lesson, humiliating the little boy Vanya, into a moral dilemma &#8212; you can read it here: &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/diaped.soe.udel.edu\/mpuzzles\/?page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\">The plum seeds<\/a>.&#8221; I&#8217;ve discovered that I like more moral dilemmas, which involve difficult questions that different people may answer differently, rather than moral lessons with one &#8220;right&#8221; answer. The other moral dilemmas suddenly &#8220;poured out&#8221; from me &#8212; I just rushed to write them down. I wrote my moral dilemma for people of all ages: little children, big children, tweens, teens, young adults, adults, mature adults, and seniors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many different stories I wrote here. I expect that some of them you will like, but some you won&#8217;t. Different people might like different stories. I hope there are some stories for you. Please provide your rating and feedback so the other readers and I know which stories you like and you don&#8217;t and why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eugene Matusov, Philadelphia, PA, USA; December, 25th 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I want to present you with a collection of moral stories I wrote &#8212; moral puzzles to think about. In each story, characters make good and bad moral decisions and actions. Would you agree with them or disagree? Why? I wonder what you think about each of the stories &#8212; write it down in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaped.soe.udel.edu\/mpuzzles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaped.soe.udel.edu\/mpuzzles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaped.soe.udel.edu\/mpuzzles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaped.soe.udel.edu\/mpuzzles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaped.soe.udel.edu\/mpuzzles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/diaped.soe.udel.edu\/mpuzzles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/diaped.soe.udel.edu\/mpuzzles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaped.soe.udel.edu\/mpuzzles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaped.soe.udel.edu\/mpuzzles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaped.soe.udel.edu\/mpuzzles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}