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Benda Brown
SOCI 4080
January 17, 2013

When ask what are some of the things you could say that stuck with you as a child growing up in the house with your parents? I would probably say with values, morals and happiness along with virtue. Society use morals and values to interact with each day. Morals instruct people to appropriately interact each other, we practice morals and values by certain beliefs within our cultural teachings and live by and the values and morals. Virtue is the excellence that gives to the practice of values moral beliefs. Examples say excuse me if I accidentally bump into a person, do not steal from people, respect older people, keep my voice low when in public, etc.…. People is judged by their moral and value characteristics of which they have been taught. For example I was taught it is not polite to interrupt your parents or any adult while they are talking, at the same time it was ok for the, parent and adult to interrupt the child talking. This rule has followed me, and as I got older I understood why I was taught this rule, why my parents and adults did the opposite. It would have to say it goes with the old phrase “do as I say, not as I do”. Two objections are commonly made to receiving the golden rule as the fundamental principle of morality ( Donagan, A. pg., 58). First, it excludes the possibility that it may be right to do anything to another which you hate to have done to you (Donagan, A. pg., 58). Yet Kant pointed out, the Hebrew Christian code call upon all parents, teachers, and judges to do many things to others, for their good or the common good, which most plain men would hate to have done to them ( Donagan, A. pg., 58). In my household it was said and taught that people should respect and treat individual in a way they want to be treated, it was told to me my grandparents, parents and adults who were

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