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To: epicure who wrote (14706)	7/5/2007 1:15:44 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) of 14758

I see 'impulses' and control of impulses as more complex than you've positioned the issue. It is true that the rules of society represent an authoritative external locus of control which we must take serious, lest we wind up incarcerated in either a prison, insane asylum, or dieing on the homeless streets. There is also an internal locus which I am convinced is a more powerful influence for persons of conscience, who are willing to open themselves to lucidity of circumstance and self critical awareness. Persons of strong character are not likely to be shamed into conduct by any society of the world, given the obvious corruptions and snares involved with the success of a societal socialite lifestyle. "Obviously children have to explore the landscape of what our society consider "wrong" and "right", but I'm not sure I see innocence and non-innocence as very meaningful." It is meaningful in the same sense that we judge adults differently in a court of law when we determine that they don't have the innate ability to distinguish right from wrong. In that sense I give innocent children a pass and where their is wrong doing, I assign responsibility to the adult(s) in charge... these days that can be the whole village.

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