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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Neocon who wrote (60495)10/1/2002 2:56:47 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
Yes, we negotiate, take exception, and edit as we go along, but the idea that we create our own values is just wrong.

Obviously we don't start with a clean slate. And the society in which we grow up demands certain choices of values and all but pretty much obviates others. It requires that we have a source of income, for example. But most of it is a choice even if the only choice is to conform or not. Perhaps we're only talking about a glass half full or half empty here. I don't know. But I don't buy the notion that society has much in the way of moral claims on us. It just acts to punish us when we don't conform.
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