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1/31/2012

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Sam G
2/16/2012 02:55:49 am

Dear Georgette,
Interesting paper. However, I thought your paper did not fully persuade the reader. The expirements you referenced with a baby "wanting" to help someone struggling to open a cabinet, I do not see a correlation between this natural human instinct to support the fact that we are born good. If we were born good why do we have the natural instinct to have greed, envy, and so on and so forth. Also adultery is essentially a natural instinct becuase it is natural to want to repreduce. My view on morality is that we were not born with it but we shape it after birth; thru the culture/ society we are in, and what religion we come to follow. We are born with instincts and a consience in my opinion.

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Georgette
2/17/2012 02:05:26 am

When you asked me in class if we are born good, I answered yes in the sense that we were MADE good. But we have the natural instinct to have greed and envy because we were BORN bad (because of original sin). Sorry.. So..

Because children (who are close to their birth age) usually want to help others who are struggling, this shows (at least to me) that they were born with it or at least the morals that they held during the experiment came quickly and easily to them. Babies have better morals than adults usually because the world has not affected them yet.

Adultery is bad because one should want to reproduce with their wife/husband. The instinct though is because of original sin.

And yes, we do shape morality after birth. But it may be different morals than what we held when we were young. They might be bad morals based on the universal code.

Thank you!

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