Today is Wednesday, February the 28th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Yesterday is one of the most haunting songs in the Beatles' 213 song repertoire.

Now, nearly 60 years later, Paul McCartney has explained its emotional bridge.

Why she had to go, I don't know, she wouldn't say.

I said something wrong.

Now I long for yesterday.

It turns out McCartney had a conversation

in which he embarrassed his mother. Then she died at the age of 47 when the singer was just 14 years

old. Now he wishes he had an eraser he could use to rub that yesterday moment away. We don't have to

live very long before we experience

such pain ourselves from things we said and did and things they said and did to us.

Imagine a world where Jesus' simple precept in Matthew 7, verse 12, was a reality. Whatever

you wish that others would do to you do also to them. Now imagine the difference

if that world was your life. Emmanuel Kant of the 18th century was one of the most influential

thinkers in Western history. His categorical imperative is a powerful and persuasive statement

of human morality. As expressed in

groundwork of the metaphysics of morals, it states, act only according to that maxim

whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. In other words,

stated positively, we should only do what we would want

everyone else to do. Stated negatively, we should avoid actions that would be damaging if

everyone else did them. Wouldn't such a world be an immense improvement on this one?

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