Suppose there are 100 million new born children and no adults. Would they grow up to do good or evil?

Answer 1

They would surely die without adults to take care of them.

Answer 2

Most would die from environmental cause (too much sun, cold, heat, something) and then eventually lack of food. I'm guessing here, but I would assume that they would start eating each other sooner or later. Or dying from eating the wrong plants. Or dirt.

100 million children under the age of 10 with no adults to teach them would die almost as quickly as they were miraculously created.

Or would they somehow understand how to read and cook and build and wear the right clothes for the weather? Human are pretty useless when we are young.

If you want to see proof. Look at those poor kids that have parents that lock them up in basements and are ignored for years. Or that foster family NY, 13 kids eating from garbage cans, some of them dead.

Answer 3

They wouldn't grow up at all. They couldn't survive without adults to take care of them.

If you're asking how they would turn out without parental influences, then I'd have to say that there's no way to honestly know. I suppose it would still depend on the individual. There would still be Satan and his demons to try to convince them to do evil, and there would also be the angels and God telling them to do what is right and be good. Good and evil are always around us, regardless of our influences. It just curves it toward one way or another if you have those influences in your life.

However, I'm not even sure about that. I mean, if you're taking away every influence in the children's lives and making it so that they live their lives completely by their own will, then there's no way to know. I'd assume they'd have to grow up to do good things because they have nothing to show them what is wrong. But it's hard to say that they'd never sin because that's human nature, regardless of circumstances.

I know that once they see sickness and death and everything life brings, and they have no one to explain to them what is happening, their minds sure would be boggled. There's no telling how they'd turn out.

It's difficult to answer such a complex question. Kudos to you on that. It kind of makes you think.

Answer 4

Okay, think of William Golding's Lord of the Flies. The kids were left on an island... what happened? Most of them went psycho. And evil.

So, I'd say if children were left attended the human evilness will come out. The inner savage per say.

Answer 5

I don't know about newborn humans. But adolescent animals left alone will do evil, especially the males. See if you can find anything on the web about the elephants that were made motherless in Africa. The males just run rampant over the countryside destroying everything they can.

Answer 6

some will chose to be good..some will chose to be 'naughty'

evil can be defined as any action that harms oneself or another and is done on purpose for that effect.

an accidental murder is not evil..

stealing because youre hungry and have no money is not evil

evil is stealing someone elses money, life, belongings because you so feel like it and are jealous...that may sound like something kids do, but then again, some personalities chose to do evil from the start

Answer 7

i refer to "lord of the flies" jim, but then those already had some sort of guidance, however, i do think it would become a strong overtaking the weak senario, but it would make for an interesting experiment. as for good and evil, one cannot exist without the other..

Answer 8

Different personalities could conflict, and what one thinks is good another might think is wrong, and so forth. different ideas might be rejected by some and accepted by others, and over time could cause a type of bridge in personality types. everyone is different.

Answer 9

Remember "Lord of the Flies"? It would be survival of the fittest most likely. Some lessons need to be taught.

Answer 10

It would depend on what they saw and experienced during their first 5 precious years of life.