• We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.

    Edwin J Delattre: We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character.  Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.
    Edwin J. Delattre (2011). “Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing”, p.7, Rowman & Littlefield