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Glossary of Terms

adherence: a holding to and following closely.

amassing: accumulating (specifically wealth).

code: any set of principles or rules of conduct.

common sense: ordinary good sense or sound practical judgment.

common sense moral education: developing ordinary good sense and sound practical judgment when it comes to making survival choices.

educate: to train or develop the knowledge, skill, mind or character by formal schooling, teaching or training.

ethics: the study of the general nature of morals and the specific moral choices to be made by the individual in his relationship to others; belief in honor and good reason.

extended: widespread or extensive.

fraught: filled or accompanied with.

fruits: benefits; advantages.

grass-roots: of, pertaining to, or involving the common people, especially as contrasted to or separated from an elite: a grass-roots movement for democratic reform.

indulged: practiced according to one's own desires.

menace: one who or one that is a threat; danger.

moral: relating to, dealing with, or capable of making the distinction between right and wrong in conduct.

morals: are a code of agreement amongst people that they will behave in a certain way or manner and conduct themselves in a fashion that will attain optimum solutions to their problems.

moral education: developing the knowledge, mind, character by formally schooling, teaching or training in generally accepted standards of right and wrong conduct.

mores: the customs, or customary practices, rules, etc. regarded as essential to or characteristic of a group.

outmoded: not acceptable by present standards; no longer usable; obsolete.

peddle dope: to sell drugs illegally.

policed: controlled, regulated or kept in order.

practice license: to do (something) with excessive freedom or liberty.

respect: particular aspect, feature or detail.

survival: to live, exist or be active through and after.

true: faithful, loyal.

values: principles or standards of an individual or group; ideals.

villainy: great wickedness or evil.

yardstick: a standard of judgement.

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