DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a family member who eats so slowly that everyone gets antsy waiting for her, especially the kids. She only starts seriously eating when everyone else is finished.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a family member who eats so slowly that everyone gets antsy waiting for her, especially the kids. She only starts seriously eating when everyone else is finished.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was brought up to always be polite to others, but as I reach 50, it seems that society cares less about this. Sometimes even ordering a coffee is fraught with potential ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a family member who eats so slowly that everyone gets antsy waiting for her, especially the kids. She only starts seriously eating when everyone else is finished.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When I visited my family with my newborn son, they could not stop talking about how handsome he was -- and how much cuter he was compared to his sister (my first child ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was brought up to always be polite to others, but as I reach 50, it seems that society cares less about this. Sometimes even ordering a coffee is fraught with potential ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When visiting our daughter, who is a graduate student, my husband and I went out to dinner with her, her boyfriend, her friend and the friend’s mother. The mother is a single ...

In his personal manners he values living in peace and harmony with ... of Pythagoras (582-507 B.C.), Confucius’ doctrine of the moral law in The Order of Things (a Confucian expression) has ...

Moral decisions are also driven by emotions and values: "I love animals more than I fear hunger." The rider did not make that decision; the elephant did. Many people would make the same choice.

The rise of this moral absolutism — wherein debate is violence and disagreement is erasure — combined with unprecedented economic stratification, creates perfect conditions for actual violence ...