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

To: The Philosopher who wrote (60526)	10/1/2002 5:08:46 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 82486

You apparently didn't catch the beginning of this discussion. You learn the rules of society, and its value judgments, as you learn a language. You no more create morality, as an individual, than you do a language. As an individual, you have some latitude in applying the standards society affords you, and you might initiate a few changes, assuming your innovations are picked up generally. But it is still society which is the arbiter of the broad content of morality. Again, to underscore, no one person invented language, it was so broadly collaborative, and so dependent upon standardization and transmission, that it is right to refer to it as coming from society........