(June 21, 2021 at 7:51 am)brewer Wrote:(June 21, 2021 at 1:57 am)JohnJubinsky Wrote: Scientists at the infant cognition center of Yale University conducted an eight year study to determine whether babies are born with a sense of right and wrong or are taught it. They concluded that babies are born with it. They said that parents and society enhance the moral values of babies but do not create them.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4374623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6786238/
I think that the above posts that brewer made about studies confirming that infants
prefer to be around others similar to themselves can also be explained by natural selection. That is, it was simply safer to be around others similar to oneself. As such, preferring to be around others similar to oneself became an inborn characteristic of the species.