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Perdition
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Message 60 of 76 (507741)
05-07-2009 4:52 PM
Reply to: Message 59 by ICANT
05-07-2009 4:01 PM


Re: RAmen
If left alone he/she will decide what is right and what is wrong.
Have you ever heard of feral children? These are children who, for whatever reason, are raised in the wild, sometimes veen by a different species of animal. They don't "know" right from wrong, their behaviors are learned from their environment.
Quite honestly, I can't understand how you can hold your position on this in the face of all the evidence that suggests our morals are mostly a learned behavior.

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Perdition
Member (Idle past 3267 days)
Posts: 1593
From: Wisconsin
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Message 62 of 76 (507747)
05-07-2009 5:27 PM
Reply to: Message 61 by onifre
05-07-2009 5:07 PM


Re: RAmen
I know, and I often catch myself thinking the same thing (how can you still think...) for many arguments on this site, but this one is just so much more obvious, in a very intimate and personal way, rather than bristlecone pine tree rings correlating to Carbon-14 decay, or even mutation and natural selection, that I couldn't stop myself from expressing it.
It reminds me of Bush et. al. who would never, ever admit to ever being wrong on anything, even when put face to face with errors and mistakes galore, until about the last month of the administration, and even then, it was always accompanied with rationalization.

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