It's been said that babies are not born with a moral compass. This study shows they do have a moral compass that they're born with. What do you think? http://www.livescience.com/22399-babies-moral-compass.html
I can't be assed with links (sorry!), but in my experience babies are perfect. Every last one of them
An experiment five years ago suggested that babies are equipped with an innate moral compass, which drives them to choose good individuals over the bad in a wooden puppet show. But new research casts doubt on those findings, demonstrating that a baby's apparent preference for what's right might just reflect a fondness for bouncy things. The researchers who conducted the original study stand by their results and interpretations, pointing to some discrepancies in the new study. In the original study, conducted by Yale researchers in 2007, groups of 6-month-olds and 10-month-olds watched a puppet show with neutral wooden figures, where one figure, the climber, was trying to get up a hill. In one scenario, one of the other figures, called the helper, assisted the climber up the hill. In the other scenario, a third figure, called the hinderer, pushed the climber down. Partial post of article. Google works.
ah well now, that's a different kettle of diapers! at 6 months (and even more so at 10 months), babies are aware of things like wilful obstruction, and can perceive deliberate contradictory actions quite well. it's why they laugh uproariously when we play games with them involving pretence of obstruction or pretend frightening. they even take it a further step up the sophistication ladder, as they know that in this instance it's not real, and that they are safe. of course it's easier for them to make this distinction when it comes from someone they know - since experience tells them this person wouldn't harm them. faced with strangers doing the same, a baby is more likely to 'freak out'.
Good observation crank. Your observation points out the validity of confidence, trust, faith in the performer. Hence, BELIEF based on personal experience.
According to the Bible....you are authorized by God to kill a baby if you think it will grow up to be evil or it comes from an evil group of people.
When you use the word "you" in the same context as you have used it, who is the "you" that you reference? I am not authorized to commit such an act.
Noam Chomsky has a similar theory about humans having an innate framework to develop language. In studies like these, I am of the belief that they are fundamentally tainted by ethics. There is no ethical way to have a social study like this without it being tainted by the human experience. If you are serious about getting untainted evidence, isolate these children from the rest of society and see what you get. Of course that is impossible as well as unethical so all we can do is extrapolate whatever data we get from these kinds of studies.
If they used 6month old babies then they canNOT claim baies are like that from birth ....they would have to use newborns. And, anyway, I don't believe babies are born with a moral anything, it's learned.
Technically, you are authorized if you are an Israelite.....then you can, even MUST, kill all the enemy babies you find.