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persoruJ1, social, mental, emotional, and mow skills that make up solid character and guide moralbehaviouts. It is the capacity to understand tight from wrong. Being morally intelligent tneons to havestrong ethical convictions and to act on them so that one behaves in the right and hoDOUnlble way.Mow intelligence is what a young adolescent needs most to counter negative pressures and do what'sright with orwithont adultguidanceBennideen (2001; 83) states that ifmow behaviour is imitated, mow character can be learnedAn ado\esce:nt growing up in a criminal environment for instance can \earn criminal ways, even ifher/his parents are not criminals (ie. he has no genes related to criminal behaviour). This would be thebehaviour that he is exposed to, this is the type of behaviour he may learn is right and this is the type ofbehaviour be may consider worth imitating. If his parents do not teach him that crimioaI behaviour iswrong, the genes that he has inherited from his fumily may be overpowered by memes related toctiminal behaviour - as he sees, he imitates. The adolescent then, having learnt that criminal behaviouris acceptable in his environment, can become a criminal too. In order to ensure young people acquirestrong moral habits and beliefs, parents must intentionally model, reinforce, and teach virtues andhabits. Unless they do, chances are young people would not acquire them, and they will be left morallydefenceless. If young people are treated morally and are deliberately taught moral skills and beliefs,researchers say chances are high they will become moral. Moral-building endeavours must becontinuous and not stopped during teenage years when it is often erroneously believed that children'smoral growth has stopped.One aspect of deceptive communication is to get a person into a particular mind state so thatthey ale unawale of being disnacted. Through covert actions one can disnao: an WlSuspecUng victim tosuch an extent that :in their particular mind state they are totally U1I2ware ofbeing duped A hypotheticalcase could be where a boy, Jack, sitting next to his mate, John, covertly gets him to talk animatedlyabout his &vounte sport, soccer. Placed :in front of the boys are two large glasses of m:ilkshake. JackSlli1eptitiously takes a sip from John's glass while alternately sipping from his own. This deceptivebehaviour allows Jack the opportunity to :indulge in drinking not only his share, but also to see howmuch of his &iend's drink he could finish without the deception being discovered. In this case Jack hasbeen manipulating the emotions ofJohn so that he could deceive him.Emotion plays an important role in conceptual blending and memoty fonnation. We typicallydeceive oth""" because we want them to be in a part:icular mind state. When people discover they havebeen deceived, they change from being trusting to being distrustful and angry. The somatic marker40