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WCDT: 2251-2255 (13-17 August 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
RyanW1019:
Don't all of us recieve "morality programming" throughout most of our early life? To some extent, it never really stops, it's just less subtle. And clearly some of us have the free will to do some pretty amoral things, so our own programming is not set in stone; or at least we're capable of ignoring it.
themacnut:
--- Quote from: RyanW1019 on 13 Aug 2012, 15:51 ---Don't all of us recieve "morality programming" throughout most of our early life? To some extent, it never really stops, it's just less subtle. And clearly some of us have the free will to do some pretty amoral things, so our own programming is not set in stone; or at least we're capable of ignoring it.
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The capability to ignore moral programming is why I'm not so quick to blame the parents for a child's, especially a teenager's, criminal behavior. We may call it programming, but we're not robots, we are able to make up our own minds about the morals we're taught. Some decide those morals are crap and do their own thing.
Also, some people never get much moral programming, or get a different set of programming than the rest of us. For example, what kind of moral code do you think a kid growing up in an inner-city family of drug dealers is going to pick up?
Akima:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 13 Aug 2012, 01:05 ---I am kind of surprised that Momo doesnt just apply the electric shock herself ... ?
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Or that she needs physical contact, since a previous strip established that she could blow someone out of his shoes at a hundred metres! ZAP!!!
<rationalisation>The power needed to "jump" an lightning-bolt through air would be much greater, and perhaps less easy to control precisely, so for minor corporal punishment Momo prefers a contact-zap.</rationalisation>
Method of Madness:
Maybe it's just more fun to trick people into it than to attack someone.
mustang6172:
If Momo really wanted to do some damage, she would show Emily the holopony she can never have.
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