Here's an
interesting study on infants that appears to suggest that morality is imprinted very very early.
Money quote for me:
Quote:
|
When we make moral judgments, we do so subtly and selectively. We recognise that explicitly antisocial acts can seem appropriate in the right circumstances. We know that the enemy of our enemy can be our friend. Now, Kiley Hamlin from the University of British Columbia has shown that this capacity for finer social appraisals dates back to infancy – we develop it somewhere between our fifth and eighth months of life.
|
All these kids must have been receiving religious teaching
in utero and/or through sign language when they were 5 months old
