Radical Kindness: Empathy as Rebellion

Radical Kindness: Empathy as Rebellion

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Can I Get a Witness?
The first step in keeping your moral ledger: learning to really see.
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Anthony Curtis
The Surprising Place to Start If You Want to Change the World
Why Empathy for My Insufferable Neighbor Isn’t About Being Nice
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Burning Down the House
Owning a home changed my life. Watching it gain value makes me feel sick.
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PUNK PHILOSOPHY
EMPATHY AS REBELLION
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July 2025

Sharing my Brain Through Chronic Pain
This Essay Brought to You by 87 Days of Agony
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Anthony Curtis
The Wise Build on Rock
Why tackling individual moral accounting is foundational for systemic change
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Why I Write
Promoting kindness in a world of chaos
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Superman Explained My Entire Ethical Framework in Two Lines
How James Gunn’s Superman captured the core of my philosophy on being good in a broken world.
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Am I Still Me If I Can’t Hold a Spoon?
I once ran a half marathon and passed the Jeopardy! test. Now my hands shake as I type. An personal essay on identity when the body begins to fail.
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I Was Owed. I Let Go. A Story of Grief and Growth.
In the aftermath of loss, it's easy to get stuck in a loop of "what should have been." But growth only begins when you accept what is. A personal story.
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...I owe you everything
Asymetrical Obligation Part 1
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You Owe Me Nothing, I Owe You Everything
If I needed to boil Ledger Ethics and Architectural Humanism down to a single aphorism, it would be this:
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