In the movie, K-PAX, Kevin Spacey is the character who claims to be from another planet and is being evaluated in a psychiatric facility. In an interview with the psychiatrist played by Jeff Bridges, he is asked if he knows right from wrong. His answer to that question was simply, ‘Every being in the universe knows right from wrong, Mark.’
A thought provoking statement don’t you think? Do we have a built in sense of morality? Or do we need a parent, a clergyman, a teacher, to teach us ethics? And the other side of that coin, do we need a parent, a clergy, a teacher, peers, to teach us how to suppress an inner knowing of the difference from right and wrong? Are we born with a blank slate and all sense of ‘right and wrong’ is etched on that slate that is our lives? Do you know right from wrong? Where did you learn it? Did you always know the difference? Does every being in the universe know right from wrong?
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