... Bhisma is the only one who feels that it would be wrong to kill someone so close to the family. He way of dealing with this moral dilemma is not to refuse to fight. Instead he declares that since he is not killing any of the Pandavas, he will instead kill ten thousand of their ... only going to war out of necessity. This image of the moral Pandavas seems shady at best for there are too many other instances when they are no more ethical then there counterparts. Even so, there seems to be a very clear moral paradox exhibited. A final concept of this alteration of one's code of morality is ....

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... and values play a very important role in people's lives. What one does, not only affects them, but also has an impact on the places and people connected to them. The dilemma is to determine how and when morals are learned. Children are born ignorant to the ways of the world. The American psychologist, John B. Watson, (Ethics: Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 99) stresses ... the result of those environmental variables. (Lickona, Raising Good Children) All children are born on the path to moral development. A number of inborn responses cause them to act in an ethical way. Newborns cry when...

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