I have felt genuine guilt only once in my life: the time that I stole cigarettes out of my mom's purse, and lied to her about taking them. Though stealing cigarettes was a stupid thing to do, it was lying to my mom that made me sick to my stomach. Only now, in hindsight, do I understand why I felt sick ... and it was not just from the cigarettes. At only the age of ten, I learned what it meant to be faced with a moral dilemma: to lie or not to lie, to steal or not to steal.
             Here I am, sitting on the edge of my mother's bed while she applies her makeup, thinking about whether or not I should do it. I finally get the up the nerve - I steal three cigarettes from the outside pocket of my mom's purse and then run for it. I felt so excited and nervous about doing something I was not supposed to do. My mother gives no thought to what I am doing...after all, I am only a normal kid running around the house. I hide the cigarettes in a little box on top of my dresser (the best spot I can think of). I should have known right then that what I was doing was wrong. I had to hide the cigarettes, and I had to lie to my mom about doing it. I had never lied to my mom before, and I felt disgusting. A couple of days later, my mom noticed that I kept closing my bedroom door whenever I went in there. Finally, she came upstairs and caught me in the act. "Dun, Dun, Dun!!"
             Intuitionism, the belief that people possess an immediate, intuitive, non-national grasp on moral properties in the world, belongs to the moral realist sector of philosophy.
             Moral Realists believe that moral claims refer to something outside the subject making the claim. Intuitionists believe that no matter how or where a person lives, he or she has
             the same basic intuitions as everyone else. Intuitionism is a form of moral realism because intuitionists believe that there is an ingrained moral sense that exists outside th
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