What belief were you brought up with, that the "real world" changed your mind about?

[begin_within]

For example, the "Golden Rule" was mentioned in my household, but I have since found out that there are people who will not do unto you as you have done unto them.

[Connonym]

in a word -- god

[ForrestGump]

1. There's no such thing as

a bad boy.




Or a free lunch -- I've had plenty of those.

[dubeskin]

2. Fairness

Because by the time I was ten, I was damn well sure that nothing in this world was fair.

[Bennyboy]

3. Honesty is the best policy.

what a crock of shit that one is. You wanna get ahead you gotta lie and cheat and steal or you will be fucked.

[The Inquisitive]

4. Same!

The truth has a nasty habit of not mattering...

[JTG of the PRB]

6. Ditto!

I've learned that over the past few years. The problem is that I try to be an ethical person, so lying, cheating, and stealing do not compute with me. Guess I'll never get ahead in the world now!

:nuke:

[Ptah]

8. In my profession, the truth is the most valuable standard.

[cynatnite]

5. Children are to be seen and not heard n/t

[ZombieNixon]

7. It takes two people to successfully assemble a moderately sized desk.

Disproved that one tonight. :woohoo: :P

[Lionel Mandrake]

9. Good guys win; bad guys get what's coming to them.

[Lethe]

10. !@#$@ the Golden Rule

THE BRAZEN RULE.

"Repay kindness with kindness," said Confucius, describing relations between individuals, "but evil with justice." This might be called the Bronze or Brazen Rule: "Do unto others as they do unto you." It's "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," plus "one good turn deserves another." In actual human (and chimpanzee) behavior, it's a familiar standard. Without having to appeal to anyone's better nature, we institute a kind of operant conditioning, rewarding others when they're nice to us and punishing them when they're not. We're not pushovers, be we're not unforgiving either.

Always be nice at first, then the BRAZEN RULE takes effect. Don't quote me on it, but I think this was proven somewhere in scientific studies of game theory to be the most efficient and mutually benefical ethical standard of behavior.

[KitchenWitch]

11. That GOOD would always win out - Wellstone's death dashed that idea

:cry: