Morality

Everyone is born with instinctive morality. John Greene states in his blog that "morals are rooted in our genes". I believe that we have a have moral reactions to everything that happens to us. Steven Pinker states that we all have a moralization switch that can be turned on and off. He writes many examples in his reading that state our instinctive morality. He writes on page 556, three examples that people immediately declare are wrong because of their moral instinct. The acts are completely wrong according to any normal human being, so autiomatically you would say that they are morally wrong but Steven Pinker goes on to prove that you physically can't prove that the statements are wrong, but because of the moral instinct that we are all born with we automatically go straight to the conclusion that the act is wrong. In both passages they comment on the trolly problem, which has been studied by many scientist and proven my MRI's that when given the option their moral instinct is to kill 1 by pulling a leaver instead of pushing one off a bridge to save 5. According to Noam Chomsky we are born with a "universal grammar" that forces us to analyze human action in terms of its moral structure, with just little awareness. Steven Pinker also states that the stirrings of morality emerge in early childhood when children spontaneously offer toys and help others to try and comfort people they see in distress.