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Originally Posted by kahljorn
No, you're right, instillment of a deviant system wouldn't fuck up their mental faculties at all. Sociopaths are all created by loving parents, there's no common pattern of fucked up children coming from fucked up parents. You can argue mental faculties in alot of ways, but one of the ways of using your mental faculties is being able to tell what's right and wrong. It might not necessarily cause permanant mental damage, but there's definitley a lack of ethical development.
Do you think children really choose between different moral systems? They don't, they usually just accept whatever their parents/peers tell them -- more or less. That's why there's entire tribes of cannibals and bad people, and why you generally see cultures sharing similar values...
Also commiting crimes because you can't tell right from wrong (or were raised to just not care) is pretty similar to acting crazy because you're crazy and don't understand reality. Socially, and psychologically, it's a very similar problem.
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You're being way too vague in your use of "fucked up, " so I'm not going to respond to your first paragraph in depth until you clarify your terms. Sociopaths can tell right from wrong. The kind of "fucked up" families they tend to come from are generally emotionally distant or outright abusive, neither of which you described in your example.
If a child is presented with two equally forceful moral systems, yeah, theyre gonna have to make some kind of choice. They will probably cry about it, as children do. Again, I wanna say something, but you aren't indicating whether you're using the word "bad" in a local or global sense.
That last part surprised me. I've seen you (might not have been you, though) rightfully take western medicine to task for proccupation with observable symptoms at the cost of identifying root causes. Don't you see how you have committed that same fallacy here?