{"id":193550,"date":"2026-06-16T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=193550"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:11:11","slug":"blogging-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=193550","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"

My blogging ethics have two components: public interest and truth. If something is true and in the public interest, then it is good to go by my standard.
\nMy favorite moral test for all of my behavior is how I would feel about it if it were accurately captured on the front page of The New York Times<\/em>.
\nI’m a Jew who loves Judaism, but I do not see, at a glance, what Torah adds to blogging ethics.
\nBy the way, this is a superficial blog post provided on the fly. It’s not like my deep work<\/a> that adds<\/a> to human knowledge<\/a>.
\nIf you want to increase your status in religious Jewish life, it helps to talk about how Torah guides your life, but when Jewish writers talk about how Torah provides indispensable ethical counsel for their writing ethics or for their politics, I find these claims are rarely serious. Usually, they are just preening. Usually, they are just convenient beliefs<\/a> aka beliefs that pay without regard to truth.
\nI almost never learn anything from what people say because we all tend to provide what the situation expects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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