Maximizing Moral Virtue

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Enforced moral standards - cultural relativism - has proven itself capable of organizing societies in vastly different circumstances to similar utilitarian ends.  Do you find yourself morally satisfied with the natural state of human beings such that, absent any rigorous instruction, you'd expect the vast majority of us to turn out alright all the same?  At least as good as any relativist society might produce?  

In a more hands off approach, are there things that you think might need extra or specific attention?  Things that might not be obvious to introspection, for example.

I feel like the question of weather or not we should just allow people to follow their own human nature is a difficult one to answer. It seems to me that when people lose confidence in the authorities appointed over them chaos tends to follow, at least for a short while until a new power takes over. More recently we saw this with the Jan 6 protest, but we're also seeing a lot of rioting and looting spread across the U.S. as a whole, mostly due to our dis-satisfaction with politics and justice.

On the one hand I feel like if kids are given some form of proper guidance then it is highly likely that they will turn out decent, even if they do have to rebel for about a decade or so after turning 13. My basic idea is simple: 

     Good leaders > anarchy > bad leaders. 

Any authoritarian structure can become corrupted, any household can be divided by strife. In the end I feel like it all depends on our own strength of will as well as our ability to go against the grain if it means doing what we genuinely believe to be good, not just for ourselves but for our community.

Do you have children?

Have you met children?

What is it that makes you some sort of authority on how to raise kids?