After reading the Time Magazine article "What Makes Us Moral" it did not change my oppinion one bit. Of course, that could be because I am bullheaded, but my oppinion didn't change. The article did list facts for both sides of the arguement, but to me the facts for nurture stood out the most.
For example, when the preschooler was told no food in the classroom the student followed the rules. When the teacher lifted the rule the student was happy to eat in class. However, when the teacher said it was okay to push another student off a chair, the student hesitated. The student said, "No, the teacher shouldn't say that." The student has morality embeded in them; it was taught to them, it was nurture. Just like in White Fang the grey cub knew love from his mother and father, and Scott, but when it was taken away from him he grew angry. At the end of the book White Fang was happy and lovey with the puppies; it was embeded in him.
Humans are normally taught from birth about morality. It is proved with the dilemmas given to the people while they were in an fMRI. Also with the tests of 'I feel your pain.' In the book Lord of the Flies when the kids first got to the island the moralities were still intact.
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