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Q&A In a young adult, what would cause development of a high sense of duty?

For your industrial revolution era character, the whole of their upbringing, education, and training would be designed to develop a high sense of duty in them. It is only after the first world war ...

posted 4y ago by Mark Baker‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Mark Baker‭ · 2020-06-14T10:51:53Z (almost 4 years ago)
For your industrial revolution era character, the whole of their upbringing, education, and training would be designed to develop a high sense of duty in them. It is only after the first world war and Wilfrid Owen's scolding of his civilization that attitudes on duty start to change:

>If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood  
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,  
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud  
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—  
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest  
To children ardent for some desperate glory,  
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est  
Pro patria mori.  

It is only our current civilization, its illusions shattered by two world wars and by the bloodiest of centuries, that does not raise its children with a strong sense of social duty. 

The question for a child in the time you are dealing with is not what would develop a strong sense of duty in them, but what would not.