Do you believe we have right & wrong encrypted in our brains from birth?OR...?

Question

do we learn all that from experience and God?

Answer 1

Yes.
I believe that conscience is innate, the concept of right & wrong is partly hardwired into us, so it is part nature, but it is also nurture, how you are raised, what you are taught by parents & peers, your life experiences, and religious background.

Some people seem to not have a conscience but what has actually happened is that at a young age they were abused or something traumatic happened to skew their perception of the world. Perhaps they were taught that it is a cruel world where you have to be cruel to survive. Perhaps they were not raised in a loving, nurturing environment. They were never given a moral foundation. There was no right & wrong. Everything was wrong. What happens to you in the first few years of life affects who you become. Childhood abuse, neglect and violence can literally create a monster. They can destroy a conscience. They can make someone grow violent, cold & cruel to deal with their pain. For survival as a species, biologically it makes more sense to be good, to be moral, to get along with others. To be evil, immoral, hateful & alienate yourself from society is a contra-survival act. It is the desperate reaction of someone who feels helpless. You may be born with certain tendencies, instincts etc but your experiences will push you one way or the other. When the world is violent and unfair to you as a child, you may be able to bypass the basic human instinct to choose good over evil and become immoral or amoral to deal with a hostile, unjust world.

Answer 2

With all due respect to you and any who Consider the existance of any God,,, that currently being in the range of 85,000 organized religions, I have to say first WHO might define and Judge?

Certainly one can be conceived and born carrying deviant GENES, which may in part, dictate future behaviors, but essentially Each is a learned experience manifest individually through behaviors. Most often learned as acceptable or not.

Correct/Incorrect...Moral/Immoral are subject to what we learn, though often WE ourselves judge (Rightly or Wrongly) which one balances the other.

A good analogy might be to experience a case study, denying from birth,,,even in an animal, learned experiences from external influences. Assume that to be FED, and given Water, were the ONLY influences directed at the test case. Who might be able to judge what other effects might alter behaviors? Obviously the BODY of a living being might instinctually never refuse nourishment, and eventually come to believe, even instinctually, that to receive sustenance one might have to endure a mild shock to get fed? Would that equate to RIGHT?/WRONG? and in whos judgement?

Steven Wolf

Answer 3

No.... but it is ingrained into the fabric of existence...and since we are creatures trying to survive within it...we must adhere to the basic laws of existence. We cannot live a contradiction or seek to ignore a contradiction--A is A. The evidences of our senses are real and not interpreted by the senses...ie...our senses have evolved over millions of years to grasp and perceive reality correctly...and when that mechanism would fail...that organism failed to survive. We are creatures like all living entities...we face the ultimate...to live or to die. Values are things which we take action to obtain...because they are good for us. Reality sets the ground work for what is good for us...that which give rise to life or promotes it... is the good...that which hinders or destroys life is the bad....this is true for every living organism. This is the foundation the base of a moral philosophy founded by Ayn Rand....the only person in the history of mankind to create a fully rational philosophy. There are other philosophies...but ask yourself this...what do they promote? Is it livable? We have only two choices as humans....to ignore reality or to obey it.

Answer 4

Not fairly. The undeniable fact that we can not engage with the arena with out our brains says not anything approximately whether or not our 'self' is produced by way of our mind. Despite the efforts of humans to hyperlink attention to emergent houses, it stays an unsolved puzzle. How can inanimate subject end up real self-mindful? That's the sticking factor. There used to be an fascinating scan wherein a neurosurgeon influenced a sufferer's mind inflicting certainly one of his fingers to transport. The health practitioner requested the sufferer why he had moved his hand and acquired the answer, 'That wasn't me. You made that occur.' Asked to maintain his hand nonetheless, the sufferer protected it with the opposite hand and held it in position. If we're not anything greater than our brains, who used to be mindful that an external supply used to be relocating the hand?