the source of morality

            i believe that morality comes from the social and political traditions that vary from person to person. i believe that depending on the upbringing, the social environment, the political orientation of said environment. this follows the logic of my own morales being much more different from that of most ticos. even though within the Costarican society morales change, mine are even more different from them.  i was brought up in a very liberal environment, with a women's rights activist and a socialist journalist as parents, my morales obviously very different from the often macho, religious and capitalistic morales.
            nevertheless i also believe that those traditional morales that each society imprints have been created by other, less honourable means, and that they often are useful particularly to one group or another. that is why morale should be then developed through reasoning and observation. this way we get to chose which of the traditional values we want to keep, which ones we dont and what else is out there.