In the Next Life, Canto II, stanzas 124-129

It’s possible I passed her, I suppose.
Not likely, but it’s worth a backward look.
As well to see my home once more, One knows,
in case I don’t retake the route I took.

It looks the same as far as I can tell:
the rocks, the trees, the hillsides, and the flowers.
The residents are much alike as well.
Is their Creator not the same as ours?

That was the message Three Eight Four Eight brought.
She thought we could be taught to get along.
But look how far the message bringer got
by thinking she determined right and wrong.

The reason for the values that we hold
is not our health and happiness, of course.
We know what’s right because it’s what we’re told.
Our mothers’ mothers got it from the source.

And those who do what’s good will be repaid
when One gives them more daughters they can teach.
Once proper moral laws by One are made,
selective pressures give them greater reach.

My daughter’s life, though, is what matters now.
Among my values, that sways me the most.
And if that is a living thing somehow,
then let it live, like any other ghost.

©2010 Louis A. Merrimac

The message: I thought #4797 didn’t know what motivated *3848. Is she fantasizing, perhaps, under the influence of the breathtaking view?
Right and wrong: There can be only one moral system within a given culture. 4797 knows better than to defy this, despite her previously expressed doubts.
Selective pressures: The character states part of the hypothesis, but of course she has to cling to the supernatural (or superartificial?) origin of morality.