Stephen Downes

This article discusses how we learn morals (and not some type of learning that is ethically good, though that may be a subject for another day). It tries to approach the subject analytically, without actually taking sides in any of the cross-cultural disagreements on what morals there are, how they're arrived at, and who is subject to the morality in question (for example: " There is a difference between representing 'this is something people shouldn't do' and representing 'this is something I'm required to stop people from doing'."). It just touches the surface of interesting issues such as innateness, statistical descriptions of morality, emotional resonance, and universalizability.