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To: nihil who wrote (34399)	4/11/1999 2:30:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Okay - here's my anal'ysis. In your first post you allowed that social morality can be self-reinforcing - which to me implies that it is endogenous. In your reply you allowed that social morality is exogenous - it derives from am extrasocial (priestly) source. Can the two be reconciled? I would regard saying that morality be externally "kickstarted" and then "idle" autonomously as cheating. As for the Founding Fathers imposing their words on us - it depends on what you mean by "impose". For any effective government the consensus gathering process must be halted and folloewed by the exercise of policy. Guess there will always be an impositive element there.