Do People Have A Moral Sense?

In the 1980's, fads came, and then disappeared without notice. It is amazing how a lot of things get popular for no particular reason. Then, with no signal at all, the popularity of that item or idea is out the window like it was never around. Why is that? Why do ideas and trends come and go so quickly? There is no real answer to this question. The problem still stands that a lot of good ideas go out of fashion, before they should have. James Q. Wilson also has this feeling. However, he is not trying to say that big hair and makeup on guys should be back in style. Wilson is talking about morality and virtue. He believes it has been lost. People in this era no longer speak of virtue as a good thing. He tells us that virtue has acquired a bad name. He says that young people think virtue is the opposite of having fun, and that older people see it as a symbol of lost virtue that politicians use for political gain. However, unlike the trends of today, he is going to argue that morality is good, and actually, it is born into us. Wilson tells us that morality is inbred in use, it is not from culture, and it is in our genes. What do we call this? Wilson calls it 'The Moral Sense.' We will only be able to take a look at a couple of the chapters in Wilson's book. However, we will be able to help explain his thesis, and try to prove that there actually is a moral sense.