Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Are humans instinctively moral?
Everybody's morals are innate. We are all born with out set of morals that we believe and that we stick to. In Why Can't We All Just Get Along by John Greene, he states that morals are rooted in our genes and also Paul Bloom later demonstrates how an array of moral inclinations show up in infants and toddlers. Because of this we are clearly shown that everybody is instinctively moral. In both readings we are given these experiment like trials that they studied and see how people work and how their morals differentiated. In Steven Pinker's passage it talks about how children do things to in return get something back. Ever since an early age we try to please other people and also try to act in such a way to other people so we can get something in return. This shows that without anybody ever even telling us as little children that if we wanted something or wanted to be treated a certain way, we had to do certain things. By going through this we all developed our morals by ourselves. Yes we later grew up and learned from our parents the rights and wrongs but even if they did not ever directly tell us, we still knew because it is just an instinct that comes to us automatically. By going through experiences in life your moral instincts automatically kick in sometimes without you even knowing it.
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