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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (4601)	2/3/2001 7:40:25 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Steven Rogers: This suggests to me that virtue is in no way innate. BBM: Bland, on the other hand, doubts that empathy is something that can be taught, if the predisposition is not already there. XtU: I just told you some people- autistics- have a defect that makes them much less capable, even incapable of empathy...you seemed to be saying empathy cannot be taught, and it certainly can. It seems your example would satisfy the condition bland set forth and support the notion that something beyond environment or happenstance has to be in place for empathy to be successfully taught.