(June 6, 2012 at 7:21 pm)Annik Wrote: I'm sure this has evolved along with our brains, but The Golden Rule is a pretty good way to decide. I can tell you the an infant's/child's brain is not formed enough to make moral choices without input from social cues. If you refer back to Kohlberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ko...velopment_), it becomes more apparent how a child develops morally.
I believe ethics is more a question of philosophy, just like moral codes. But you're getting away from the core question, we don't have a moral intuition, we have a burning need to be accepted, thus (as children) we conform to moral norms until we are old enough to understand the implications of our actions, ect.
Why should a person follow the golden rule?
