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To: Edwarda who wrote (78086)	4/14/2000 12:54:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I think, like pleasure, humans seek society out- and in fact society is pleasurable and ostracism painful (for most, but not all, humans)- but to define what is pleasure and what isn't, and what is society, is impossible since it varies so much from individual to individual. You could take surveys, and gather statistics- as you could do for concepts of "right" and "wrong" but it wouldn't prove anything. What DOES prove something is that certain types of brain injuries completely impair moral decision making and the urge to fit into society. SO there IS some degree of hard wiring for moral JUDGMENT- I just don't happen to believe it has anything to do with what kinds of judgments are made. SO perhaps we agree. At a very basic level the desire to socialize and the capability to make moral judgments is probably built in- but WHAT those judgments will be is in my opinion completely dependent on socialization.