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St. Mary's Convent High school, Mapusa is staging a play titled "Lion King"
December 1, 2007 - Hanuman Hall, Mapusa
to fundraise for a false ceiling for the school hall
& upgrading the school playground
Headmistress Sr. Namika A.C. / Teacher Mrs. Sonia Noronha
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Gilbert Lawrence wrote:
> Thanks for your contribution. In your post below:
> Are you making the point (like Dinesh and me) that humans are not born MORAL?
> Are you making the point (like Dinesh and me) that the immoral human traits
> continue in some individuals in spite of religion (codes) and civil codes?
> Please tell me where is the beef?:=))
GL,
Here is a brief discription of the word moral.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral
The first sentence says, "A moral is a message conveyed or a lesson to be
learned from a story or event."
If this is a correct definition of the word, then yes, I too fall into the same
group as you and Dinesh and all others who believe that humans are not born
moral.
As for you second question, I am trapped into your group again.
Yes, some individuals continue to have "immoral human traits" despite religious
and civil codes.
The beef is what exactly are "immoral human traits? I grew up in a society
where a man could have several wives. In the last century the Catholic church
came in and declared that immoral. Civil codes were introduced to make the
Christian version of morality the new civil law.
I now live in a country where the civil codes have been altered so that
homosexual couples get the same benefits as common law spouses. Civil laws
were again changed so that same sex couples can get married. In short, what was
immoral last year is not immoral any more.
Mervyn3.0
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