One final note. Christian's framework also provides a way of understanding what John Dilulio of Princeton University calls “moral poverty.” In his studies of violent youth in American inner cities, Dilulio describes “the super-predators,” teenagers who will kill without thought or remorse simply because they are inconvenienced. Dilulio says that moral poverty is what you get when people grow up without loving, capable, responsible parents who teach you right from wrong…who habituate you to feel joy at other's joy, pain at other's pain, happiness when you do right, remorse when you do wrong….
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