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And if you are gonna say we are moral by nature then we are also destructive by nature.
There was a study where they asked children two questions:
1. Will you cheat on test, when your teacher allows you so?
Majority answered - yes.
2. Will you hit another student, if the teacher asked you to do it?
Majority answered - no.
Of course, you can easily say, its becouse of the upbringing, but I'll say differently.
"The teacher" in those two questions is the authority figure.
If morality was only instrumentaly supplied by upbringing, autority should be more than enough to release inner "demon" of children, but that doesn't happen.
Why? Becouse children, like every normal human (excluding psychopaths and sociopaths) are able to tell what possible outcome to the other person would his behavior bring.
Hitting a colegue will probably hurt him, and thats why children choose to not to do it.
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Some people say children who knows nothing are so cruel sometimes.
Yes they are, but not becouse they "don't know anything". It's becouse their brain may be structured
differently. It's said that many psychopaths walk in freedom, with they urges surpressed by law, and social order. Those children you are talking about may be from that group.
This group is also predicted, by the evolution of altruism. But I don't want to go deeper into the matter here.
Is destruction really a human nature?
Do you go home every day with urge to kill some innocent man or woman?
Is it just the upbringing that stop you from this action?
No, we're not destructive. If we were, we would probably die out millions years ago.
Our most important advantages were inteligence, and team work.
And you couldn't have good team work, when every team member wants to kill another.
When you say:
" Oh God, I did something wrong"
It's just your cognitive dissonance at work.
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Again, sorry for my english ;p
First of all there are level of destructiveness. You don't have to go kill someone to be destructive. And second, there are no "Innocent" people. Everybody is guilty according to every beliefs. And you talk as if people aren't killing each other. The reason why we don't die out is we are smart enough to always stop at certain points that can wipe as out. Such as the Cold war.
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Nuff said.