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Monday, April 03, 2006

Political Correctness and the Moral Development of Children

Here is an interesting article about the moral vacuum that today's policy of political correctness provides as a teaching mechanism.

At schools today, kids are taught about feelings. It hurts people’s feelings if you say mean things to them or about them. It hurts people’s feelings if you steal. It hurts the teacher’s feelings if you’re not respectful. While it’s not at all a bad thing to take other people’s feelings into consideration when you’re planning your own conduct, feelings do not equal an external moral standard that apply in most circumstances

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5373

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