Most people have a sense of what is inheriently right. Whether you are talking about the golden rule or karma, most of us know that the old saying is true, what goes around, comes around. It seems to take others longer to figure out that rules are not obstacles. Rules, golden or otherwise, exist, because they are true. Helping young people figure it out is the objective, my job.
It is not that I think most people are good. I'm pretty sure everyone is both. The lousiest SOB you ever met might do a good deed now and then. And the neighborhood saint that does everything by the "Good Book" will occasionally slip a knife in the back of a friend. The human condition is the mystery. Navigating the ups and downs of this moral landscape results in learning.
Dealing with this mystery, and watching the next generation take up the banner is what makes life interesting. I see my job as trying to influence the thinking of the people who will be in charge of the nursing homes when us "old timers" are rocking in our rocking chairs. Now isn't that a scary thought?
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