PGH Downtempo -- Good and Evil?

[Jeremy David]

This is a bit of a backtrack, but this news story makes my point all too well.

http://tinyurl.com/jnclp

Children are morally undeveloped at best. Children seldom if ever act
out of empathy, and will usually do what they're told, as long as you
watch them, which means they have no conscience, only the ability to
follow orders out of either fear, or a desire to please others. Either
way, that's basically the opposite of what we consider a moral person
to be.

On 3/20/06, Michael J. Salo <salo at rcn.com> wrote:
>
> >Well, I think the only "ultimate standard of human behavior" are the
> >many variations of that whole "do unto others" deal.
>
> The aim of life is self development.  good & evil are distractions.
>
> As far as "do unto others..." - one problem is people want different
> things.  If I did to others as I want done to me, well let's just say
> it wouldn't go over too well.
>
>  >> In fact, it was
>  >> shown that children who did not interact with other children at the
>  >> age of 2 tended to have difficulty learning sharing and other
>  >> altruistic concepts later in life.
>  >
>  > Some of those children are now pgh-goth-listers.
>
> that would be me.  I tend to hate sharing.  especially books - you
> get them back in appalling condition, if at all.
>
> Michael J. Salo
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