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Title: Babies Know the Difference Between Good and Evil at Six Months, Study Reveals
Source: Lew Rockwell
URL Source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/babies-know-natural-law.html
Published: May 11, 2010
Author: David Derbyshire
Post Date: 2010-05-11 08:16:32 by Eric Stratton
Keywords: None
Views: 65
Comments: 6

Babies Know the Difference Between Good and Evil at Six Months, Study Reveals
by David Derbyshire
May 11th, 2010

At the age of six months babies can barely sit up – let along take their first tottering steps, crawl or talk.

But, according to psychologists, they have already developed a sense of moral code – and can tell the difference between good and evil.

An astonishing series of experiments is challenging the views of many psychologists and social scientists that human beings are born as 'blank slates' – and that our morality is shaped by our parents and experiences.

Instead, they suggest that the difference between good and bad may be hardwired into the brain at birth.

In one experiment involving puppets, babies aged six months old showed a strong preference to 'good' helpful characters – and rejected unhelpful, 'naughty' ones.

In another, they even acted as judge and jury. When asked to take away treats from a 'naughty' puppet, some babies went further – and dished out their own punishment with a smack on its head.

Professor Paul Bloom, a psychologist at Yale University in Connecticut, whose department has studied morality in babies for years, said: 'A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.

'With the help of well designed experiments, you can see glimmers of moral thought, moral judgment and moral feeling even in the first year of life.

'Some sense of good and evil seems to be bred in the bones.'

For one study, the Yale researchers got babies aged between six months and a year to watch a puppet show in which a simple, colourful wooden shape with eyes tries to climb a hill.

Sometimes the shape is helped up the hill by a second toy, while other times a third character pushes it down.

After watching the show several times, the babies were shown the helpful and unhelpful toys. They showed a clear preference for the helpful toys – spending far longer looking at the 'good' shapes than the 'bad' ones.

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Golly gee and my my, I wonder where such a knowledge would come from!

Holy holiness Batman!

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#1. To: Eric Stratton (#0)

It is 'in the genes'. There are some that don't have that gene.

That is why they passed the Health Care Program.

The Bankers don't have that gene.

Itistoolate  posted on  2010-05-11   8:22:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

"You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."

Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-05-11   8:28:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Itistoolate (#1)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

"You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."

Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-05-11   8:29:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Eric Stratton (#0)

Did they test African babies?

I'm completely serious.

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Prefrontal Vortex  posted on  2010-05-11   10:52:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#4)

Did they test African babies?

I'd say no, they did not, or if they did, they didn't publish the results.

“No amount of reason, evidence, logic or rational argument will ever convince the true believer otherwise.”

Turtle  posted on  2010-05-11   11:15:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#4)

Did they test African babies?

I'm completely serious.

sub-animals are amoral.

I'm completely serious too

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