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Talia Ringer 🌻🪬
@TaliaRinger
Folks who went to secular public schools in the US: Did you get any ethics education in elementary, middle, or high school? (Select earliest applicable answer)
  • Elementary school
    5.3%
  • Middle school
    3.8%
  • High school
    8.2%
  • N/A
    82.7%
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Talia Ringer 🌻🪬
@TaliaRinger
Just wondering because a lot of my intuition for ethics is based on my religious Jewish elementary school education, even though I'm now an atheist. I'm surprised how consistent it is with, say, professional ethics codes in computer science
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Talia Ringer 🌻🪬
@TaliaRinger
Young atheist me was annoyed at my religious education, but older atheist me can separate the philosophy from the theism, and very very strongly appreciations the philosophy I had a chance to learn from such a young age
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Hillel
@hillelogram
Yeah, it's something I started noticing this year, too: the religious upbringing I had lead to me having a different personality and set of values, even as a current atheist, than most of my born-atheist friends have
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(have-YER Candeira) for you for your cousin
@candeira
Somehow I became a "Catholic Atheist": I don't believe in God and mistrust the hierarchies of the Church, but my moral code is informed by the theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity... about my fellow humans, not about God. Virtue-based ethics sucks though.
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