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We acquire our moral "instincts" throughout life, especially in early years, from many sources. Those reared in lives constrained by religious doctrine mostly grow up with narrow concepts of morality. I acquired by moral "instincts" from both the principles that I was taught and observation of how life works: but not from "instinct" alone, as that can be too easily mistaken.
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