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To: SilentZ who wrote (243777)	7/27/2005 10:56:13 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575981

""Do unto others" is ingrained to a solid extent in most people simply because it's a smart way to live." Not only that, according to Game Theory, it has a solid scientific basis.

To: SilentZ who wrote (243777)	7/28/2005 10:27:56 AM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1575981

I think it is obvious. Humans are malleable based on the environment in which they grow up. Plenty of science will tell you that. If people grow up within an environment that stresses a strict moral code, the probability is higher they will adhere to that moral code throughout their life, even when they are removed from that environment. If on the other hand they grow up with no moral code, then the probability is high that they will not adhere to any moral code, because they will not have experienced anything to reinforce a moral code. This is sociology 101. Another aspect of sociology 101 asserts that taboos are stronger than laws. Societies can't bear the costs of policing a society only through laws. Taboos fill this gap in resources to ensure that members of a society are self-policing. So your modern day secularists are trying to replace religion with laws only and the consequences could be a melting of the glue that holds our societies together. I'm not saying that outcome is a certainty. But one thing is clear, if some other strong set of morals doesn't replace the framework of religion that is being so glibly thrown in the toilet, then we will have a bunch of citizens that hold to no moral code and obey no taboos. This will ultimately shatter society and bankrupt our gov't as it struggles to become a police state to compensate for the lost power of taboos to self-police it's citizens.