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To: one_less who wrote (78096)	4/14/2000 2:57:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

>Another arguement, which has more merit, is that humans are born with a social instinct to belong and so the moral principles are easily decerned by all human beings after birth through rational thinking, and or supported by society< Most people couldn't think their way rationally out of a paper bag, and they certainly don't think rationally as children. According to the authorities on child development children aren't even capable of consistent reason at the age when they absorb so much of societies moral teachings- so I would say that most people imprint, and absorb the "morality" the see modeled all around them, from infancy. They imprint on their parents, and model them to begin with, and then move on to generally imprint on the rest of society. This is merely what I see evidence for- I won't say it is absolutely so.