DNA Proves Existence of a Designer

[KevinM1]

Actually, people don't know right from wrong as children.  While most children develop a theory of mind (meaning, they understand that other people around them think and feel like they do), empathy != morality.  It's the start of it, perhaps, but not the end result.  That still takes reasoning.

Anyone that's actually been around children knows that they'll bite, scratch, fight for what they want, when they want it.  Children are very territorial and inherently selfish, likely due to evolutionary factors ("No, that's my nipple, get your own!").  That's why a huge part of parenting is about instilling values and teaching children how to act properly in society.  If they came out of the womb with any idea of morality, life would be a hell of a lot easier.

Based on the article below, 19 months is when a child shows understanding of right from wrong.  

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/new...onths.html

A sense of fairness, like empathy, != morality.

With little kids, especially, their notions of fairness are filtered through a selfish lens.  "What's fair to me?"

I have a young niece and nephew (5 and 6 respectively).  Despite their parents and extended family (including myself) teaching them to share their toys among themselves and not fight over them, they inevitably do.  Because their notions of fairness extend only to the boundary of their reach.  It's unfair, to them, that one of them played with the cool toy for some unspecified length of time.  Or that one of the toys belongs to them, and they want it back.  Or that the other person won't engage in a patently unfair toy playing trade because they're smart enough to know that it's not in their best interest.  Or another slight, real or imagined.

Again, parenting would be a lot easier if kids came out of the womb with morality intact.  Instead, much of it is learned.