Some Level Of Truthfulness Has

Empathy And Fellow Feeling Form The Very Basis Of Morality. The Capacities For Empathy, For Feeling Responsibility Toward Others And For Reaching Out To Help Them Can Be Stunted Or Undermined Early On, Depending On A Child's Experiences In The Home And Neighborhood. It Becomes Too Easy To Turn Our Backs On Fellow Human Beings... To Have 'compassion Fatigue.' Technology, We Are Learning, Is Not Neutral.

Trust And Integrity Are Precious Resources, Easily Squandered, Hard To Regain. They Can Thrive Only On A Foundation Of Respect For Veracity.

The Television Screen Is The Lens Through Which Most Children Learn About Violence. Through The Magnifying Power Of This Lens, Their Everyday Life Becomes Suffused By Images Of Shootings, Family Violence, Gang Warfare, Kidnappings, And Everything Else That Contributes To Violence In Our Society. It Shapes Their Experiences Long Before They Have Had The Opportunity To Consent To Such Shaping Or Developed The Ability To Cope Adequately With This Knowledge.

We Are All, In A Sense, Experts On Secrecy. From Earliest Childhood We Feel Its Mystery And Attraction. We Know Both The Power It Confers And The Burden It Imposes. We Learn How It Can Delight, Give Breathing Space And Protect.

Three Sorts Of Goods, Aristotle Specified, Contribute To Happiness: Goods Of The Soul, Including Moral And Intellectual Virtues And Education; Bodily Goods, Such As Strength, Good Health, Beauty, And Sound Senses; And External Goods, Such As Wealth, Friends, Good Birth, Good Children, Good Heredity, Good Reputation And The Like.