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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (78000)	4/13/2000 1:50:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I grew up in a large family by today's standards, four children, all very close in age, and it strikes me that we were all very scrupulous about things being fair - that is, equal. We didn't want the other to have a bigger slice of pie or an extra serving of ice cream, but we also didn't think it was fair if we, ourselves, got a bigger slice of pie. A little bigger, maybe, but not disproportionate. Maybe that was taught at such an early age that I've forgotten it, but I think it's just natural. I didn't want to cheat my sisters, and I didn't want anyone else to cheat them. The protective urge I felt towards my sisters is very similar to any altruistic feeling I have. I think it's some kind of extrapolation, but I can't say it's innate. But I also want to be liked, and respected, by my neighbors, so treating them with respect is the way to get that. And one soon learns that you must give to get, that our society demands reciprocity. So one must help others in order to be helped. If you take, but don't give, you are shunned. If you don't keep your end of the bargain, you are shunned. I think even violent predators like Mongols and Vikings had a strong code of honor among themselves.