Date: 4:12 am Tue Oct 31, 1995 Number : 145 of 201 From: Silicon Soul Base : BOMB_Net - Programming To : Temujin Subj: Re: hmm
T> I mean if the sex drive is there from birth, why can't some kind of moral T> values be there at birth.
The sex drive has to do with the continuation of the species... even worms have a need to procreate. Moral Values are a human invention.
T> able to tell right from wrong? (Except psychos). T> Same here, personally I can't remember people saying 'no don't do that its T> wrong'.
It's a learned conditioned response. You do what satisfies you and makes you feel good. If you do the 'right' things... you get a pat on the head, a hug, cookies from Mom... a promotion... etc. etc. etc. Do the wrong things - you get your hand slapped, sent to bed, a scolding... so you learn to do the 'right' things simply because it's the easy comfortable way to get self gratification. If you isolated someone entirely from outide influences (well, first off they'd be totally psychotic from deprivation)... they would have no concept whatsoever of right OR wrong. Like I said, right would be whatever made them feel good... wrong whatever made them feel bad. And if they did not have any preconditioning influences... right could be anything... including murder... IF it made them feel good and there were no unpleasant consequences.