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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (2313)	10/23/2000 12:30:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 28931

But you've internalized what is good for society in your head- as E said- you've got an idea of what your parents said was good, of what the media told you was good, what the boyscouts told you was good, whatever...it's all in there- in the moral calculus as you do it. So I think E is right. Most people, not all, soak up not only the laws and minimal requirements of cultural behavior, but through verbal and non-verbal communication, spending their lives in a culture, absorb all the minutiae of gradations between what is most good, what is good, what is average, what is slightly bad, what is bad, and what is heinous, and all the infinite shades in between.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (2313)	10/23/2000 1:55:23 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

I agree with this post of your pretty much, except that I believe we don't do as much conscious calculating as you and Steve and X seem to think. I think a lot of what we do, or don't do, has to do with internalized norms, or conscience, or, if one is operating with religious or ideological precepts as guiding principles, with those, internalized. There is also a concept/phrase I've mentioned in discussion before that is relevant to this discussion -- "the normative value of the actual." Which says: if it simply is, it comes to feel normal. That's why so many parents are horrified at the examples provided by the various media, and their children's school mates, for behavior and attitude. Whatever life the parents provide for their children, and example, and counsel, they offer, if their children are witness to an "actuality" of coarseness and cruelty and dishonesty and materialism and false consciousness, parents know that to some discomfiting degree their children will see those qualities as "normal," and thus be likelier to feel them as acceptable modes of being.