3. Eli; what did you think as a young child in a religious environment?
I haven’t the vaguest clue what I thought at that age. My episodic memories of childhood are very weak.
4. It seems clear that there is a systematic direction in most or all cultures towards application and generalization of moral/ethical vocalizations as wealth increases. There is a less clear trend towards broadening circles of moral consideration, but this may be an instance of the first trend.
While that certainly makes for an interesting moral direction, it must have been carried out, at least at the beginning, by people who didn’t start out knowing that this was a good direction. So then what is the causal account of how this directionality occurred? (I’m assuming that everyone’s an adult here and we can rule out mystical rot like “it was built into the fabric of the universe” or similar pleasant absurdities.)
3. Eli; what did you think as a young child in a religious environment?
I haven’t the vaguest clue what I thought at that age. My episodic memories of childhood are very weak.
4. It seems clear that there is a systematic direction in most or all cultures towards application and generalization of moral/ethical vocalizations as wealth increases. There is a less clear trend towards broadening circles of moral consideration, but this may be an instance of the first trend.
While that certainly makes for an interesting moral direction, it must have been carried out, at least at the beginning, by people who didn’t start out knowing that this was a good direction. So then what is the causal account of how this directionality occurred? (I’m assuming that everyone’s an adult here and we can rule out mystical rot like “it was built into the fabric of the universe” or similar pleasant absurdities.)