Born good Babies help unlock the origins of morality
Posted on: July 10, 2013 - 11:56am
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Born good Babies help unlock the origins of morality
Amazing... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF90BzQZPfQ
I use to think morality was objective when I started posting on this forum. I don't think that anymore. I hold the Ideal observer theory which poses ethics as a subjectivist yet universalist form of cognitivism.
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WTF!? Sorry the embedded video is different from the link... this is the true embend:
Pretty much covers the dichotomy of being human. Prosocial instincts and in-group preference instincts. I wouldn't call it morality, myself, but rather the precursor to morality. Why it is okay to hate thy neighbor if said neighbor is different from your in-group, but also why it is okay to assist the same neighbor in case of disaster.
And as they stated - more than once - the results are expected given that humans are a social animal and evolved in family groups where assisting those in your family group meant more for everyone and more children raised to sexual maturity.
-- I feel so much better since I stopped trying to believe.
"We are entitled to our own opinions. We're not entitled to our own facts"- Al Franken
"If death isn't sweet oblivion, I will be severely disappointed" - Ruth M.
don't show this vid to Wakawaka...
I second that.