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To: Neocon who wrote (60530)	10/1/2002 4:43:01 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The expectations of society are all you have to work with Well, you're a traditionalist and I'm not. I require utility, a rational basis that I can relate to, before I buy into society's expectations. We've discussed before the things our society holds onto as moral that make no sense at all, at least not anymore. Perhaps it was growing up eating fish on Friday in the grand old decade of the fifties that did that to me. <g>

To: Neocon who wrote (60530)	10/1/2002 5:04:27 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The expectations of society are all you have to work with, in the formation of your character. The problem is, every person is brought up in a range of societies with sometimes very different expectations and moralities. Society is not homogenous. We have, among many others, the society of their family, their church, their cultural and racial heritage, their peer group, their football team, their school, their college (where in most cases any thinking to the right of Jesse Jackson is considered antisocial), their country (usually the last society to be recognized). Are all of these societies moral in their own ways? If they make conflicting claims, where is the person to go to sort those out?