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

To: Bill who wrote (17486)	6/29/2001 10:10:01 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 82486

children need to be taught that caring for others is "good" and hurting others is "bad" I have no problem with that, since those are values that I share, as do most of us. But do we teach them that caring is good and hurting bad because people have learned, over many years and through much grim experience, that caring makes our society a better place to live in and hurting makes it worse? Ot do we teach them that caring is good and hurting bad because a cosmic being said so? Or because caring is good in the abstract, and hurting bad in the abstract? More than likely, none of the above. At the age when these values are assimilated, these distinctions are incomprehensible. If we do our jobs, by the time our children are old enough to debate these niceties, they've already learned the lesson. I suspect that the children whose parents believe that these values were learned assimilate the values every bit as well as children who believe that these values are absolute.