Morals

I believe I have a solid grasp of what's right and wrong, and feel bad about wrong actions enough to avoid them.  I blame this on parents who remain happily married, and sunday school when I was a kid.  This brings a real sense of naivety as I expect others to  feel the same way about their actions.  To feel guilt or "sin."  But no, most people commit wrongful actions without remorse, or at least suppressing any remorse.  Actions are justified or rationalized, defended, or unquestioned.  For all its flaws, at least Christianity gave me a solid concept of what's acceptable and what's not.  I don't mean feeling morally superior, I mean being an all around decent person. 

Yet there are always people who don't care about how they act.  Is it how they were raised, the environment they grew up in, or their lack of a supernatural boogeyman watching them all the time?

What if instead of churches there were moral-philosophical centers, that would discuss varying degrees of acceptability for different actions.  Some of it would seem to common sense, but even the common sense doesn't seem to be emphasized anymore. 

I mean basic awareness of harmful actions such as theft, rape, child abuse, property destruction, murder, etc.      

Children should be taught how to be critical, fully flung logic and philosophy unfortunately is about the same complexity as college level mathematics. Elementary and high school level critical thought can be aimed simply at asking questions. People ask questions all their lives, the skill of knowing what is relevant and how to find it is self-evident and everyone picks them up, it is just a matter of getting children to realise that politics is important and they should question everything. Not just authority, but the people who criticise authority and themselves, question history, question the physics teacher about how the ammeter works, question people who you trust and think never lie to you, when someone gets angry ask them why they are angry etc etc..

I used to be a charlatan, posing as security guards and cops etc etc.. and the one thing I dreaded was people asking questions, it never happenned, so I was never caught. I must have stolen $40000 of property and sold it off for 1/4 the price. I dread to think what someone in charge of $1000000s of other people's money would get up to in a question free environment.