06-01-2021, 09:10 AM
(05-29-2021, 09:30 AM)Dill Wrote: 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.The little girl at Little Caesars who tried to stop her mom from acting like a rabid animal knew right from wrong. Yes, we teach our kids, but we also have an instinctual level of right and wrong. There are always exceptions. Sorry, I am just not buying that we have no idea what right and wrong is solely based on being taught.
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.
I am not a conservative. It just seems that way because I do have some views that are considered conservative, plus most on here lean liberal/progressive.
