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Originally Posted by slikster
Humans must be taught right and wrong, it is not innate. If we did not have the capacity to teach our children right from wrong, we would be no better than animals (whom we as humans also have to teach.)
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Animals have their own sense of right and wrong... higher primates have very complex systems that show many resemblances to our own, even things like altruism.
Feral children which have never been taught by humans still show innate values.. so there is some innate portion of value systems.
I wouldn't go so far as to equate them with mathematics, it is interesting that different groups of primates developed similar sets of values over time.
Which makes sense, as an intelligent species evolves things like values that benefit the whole species would become part of the basic structure of the brain, in the same way that "instincts" in animals occur.