You Work For Me, I Work For you

That's an old army saying, usually spoken by a superior to a subordinate.  I guess it's a variation of "You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.", which is somewhat more egalitarian.

I'm not so sure about kids being born with a moral compass.  From what I've seen of newborn babies, they are selfish, demanding, and manipulative.  Of course their mothers love them, but I'm not sure that they love their mothers back.  They are closely bonded with their mother because they and their mother both inhabited the same body until recently, and they are dependent on their mother for everything they require to comfortably survive.  The first word that most babies vocalize is "ma-ma", and I read somewhere that this is true of many languages, not just English.  Truth be known, ma-ma is not really a word, it's just an intuitive vocalization that elicits a positive response.  While nobody has to teach a baby to say "ma-ma", I don't think any of them say "daddy" without some coaching from ma-ma.  Babies know who their mother is, but they don't relate to anybody else until somebody teaches them to.  Okay, they might relate intuitively to a twin, but that's pretty much for the same reason that they relate to their mother.

While little babies expect unconditional love from close family members, they soon begin to learn that, for anybody else to like them, they have to please them by either doing something or not doing something.  I don't think you can call the bond between mother and child "morality", that comes later as the child begins to interact with other people.  Have we discussed this before?  I'm starting to feel like it's deja vu all over again.

My hypothetical wife and I have decided that we like Home Run Inn pizza better than Jack's Original.  The only thing is that we found the crust to be a little too hard for our taste, but the instructions on the box say that can be remedied by setting the oven temp to 425 degrees instead of 450.