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Research Says Babies as Young as 5 to 8 Months Old Really Do Judge Us
Turns out, morals may be more than a social norm
If you’ve read much of my writing, then you may notice a few common themes, one of which is humanity. What it is and what it means to us as a species, both philosophically and scientifically. And what’s more humane than morality?
The concept of morals, or unspoken rules of decency within a society, and the desire to punish those who break them, is technically a social construct. One which is a Homo sapien creation. Although when viewing morality from a scientific perspective, it appears it’s more than simply a construct of our imagination or learned behavior.
A Sense of Right and Wrong
Ethical dilemmas shape our lives, and the topic deserves its own article, but given the state of our world, let’s review it shall we?
We live in a reality of opposites — love/hate, hard/soft, right/left — all of which are scales with varying degrees of extremes. The concept of “right and wrong” is also on this list, and society can’t exist without it. What’s considered right or wrong is largely subjective and contextual for every human society. For a long time, experts thought morals were learned behaviors only, as rules we created to govern larger…
