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No Vested Interest

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5. As I recall, the measure has always been a

Reply to Cleita (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 6, 2014, 01:10 PM

Jun 2014

"correctly-formed" conscience.
That's the hard part - getting a young human being to adulthood with the knowledge and ability to make the hard choices.
Some of it comes "naturally - "natural law"; most of life's choices are more nuanced.

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