[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[Stefano Mori]

On 2007-Dec-04, at 19:47, LuKreme wrote:

> On 4-Dec-2007, at 12:27, Stefano Mori wrote:
>> On 2007-Dec-04, at 19:12, Mark Smith wrote:
>>> There is nothing other than crap in any of them that is unique to
>>> them. They are by definition then, full of useless crap. They should
>>> be dismissed.
>>
>> OK, here's a question: how do you teach morality to a 4 year old?
>
> My usual method is to point out that they are being selfish (almost
> all bad behavior can be traced to selfishness, from yelling at your
> brother to the bad drivers on the highway) and point out that they
> don't like it when other people are selfish.  It's worked pretty well
> with the two kids so far (10 and 5).


And what I'm wondering is, do they have an inner formed cognitive  
understanding of "selfish", or do they merely see, as a 4 year old,  
the power figure telling them not to do something, and "selfish" is  
just another word for "bad" and bad is another word for a possible  
punishment?



> I don't tell them about invisible forces that spy on them all the time
> and will punish then after they die


Stefano