(05-27-2021, 01:33 PM)Mickeypoo Wrote: Even that little girl at Little Caesars knew right from wrong when she tried to stop her mom. And her mom was failing her. She still knew. I'm not buying these excuses for bad behavior. I may be wrong, but I believe that people are born with an inherent sense of what is right and wrong. At least from a murder, violence, destruction standpoint. They may choose to do wrong or make excuses for doing wrong, but I believe they still know it is wrong.
There are points on which I usually agree with conservatives. I thought we might share one here--namely that it is important to TEACH our children to understand right from wrong. A great number of the conservative parents I've known have been very big on this. That why it matters which friends they choose, where they play, what schools they go to.
If children already knew right from wrong, such teaching would not be necessary.
And if there were some "inherent sense of what is right and wrong," then it would likely be always the same everywhere; we wouldn't see so many different ideas about what counts as "murder, violence, destruction" across history and between cultures.
Otherwise one would have to believe that millions of people lived for thousands of years the world over constructing whole societies and legal cultures that went against that inherent sense, making excuses for doing wrong but still knowing it was wrong.