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

To: Neocon who wrote (78476)	4/19/2000 1:59:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Not true. If you have any judgment you know that if you steal you foster a climate of defensiveness in your society. You don't need to think it is immoral to steal to realize that WHEN you steal you influence the whole climate of your society. Do you necessarily realize this rationally? I do but most people don't. However I am not willing to underestimate the intuitive nature of people's social adaption- and I think that is what empathy is all about. So having been taught empathy you don't steal because you imagine what you would feel like if stolen from. And you also, at some level, don't want to live in a society where thievery is rife. And at some level you understand that by thieving you increase the pool of thievery, and the odds that it will happen to you. Seems to me it is completely self interested behavior not to steal- and of course this "do not steal" crap breaks down when survival is at stake- as one would expect. When starvation is imminent it makes more adaptive sense TO steal. People who can't get past their morality will take their morality to the grave. Of course I make no pronouncement from Mt Olympus- this is merely MY theory. Whereas, apparently, you have the truth. Thanks for sharing it. giggle