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To: epicure who wrote (78044)	4/14/2000 12:33:00 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<<What is innate is the desire in most humans to be sociable, and to further their sociability humans try to adapt to the morals they are born into.>> I agree with you to a point. Sociability or membership is innate but through environmental influences we encourage people toward valuing membership in some subgroups over others. Likewise, we try to educate people on the application of right and wrong. Totally isolated societies may have a different set of applications on morality but the core principles generally match. The reason for this is that within us is the ability to make observations on society and establish for ourselves confirmation on what is right and what is wrong, good or bad. This ability has an internal locus of control and seems to be universal. Some times society becomes very complex and through "group thinking" exercises a system called good and right can actually be bad for some of the members. A martyr or whatever causes disorientation in the system until that unjust (bad) system is restructured. That is only effective because the observers of the martyrdom are able to confirm within themselves the injustice in spite of the established system and everything they have ever been taught about what is right and wrong. The people who were unable to see the injustice when it was occurring have blocked their own ability to tap into the internal locus of control. So we call them a company man/woman etc. because they don't think for themselves in such situations. We train this characteristic into military organisations.