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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
i'm not sure if you saw the second part of my post, which was more addressing this part. i don't believe that you can draw such an easy distinction between internal and external motivation, since what we think of as our "personality" is really just an internalization of external experience with other individuals. so just because we don't sense the fear driving morality but have instead internalized that drive, doesn't mean that it doesn't still lie at the root of society.
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Ok, I'll just post one more point to clarify anything of my argument that might still be a little ambiguous. I agree with you that our "personality" is MOSTLY an internalization of external experience with others (part of it is also inherited). I don't agree however that human's inherent morality stems from fear.
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