Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. (Jane Rule)

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

Jane Rule

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