[Buddha-l] Morals in 6 months old kids

[Richard Hayes]

On May 24, 2010, at 9:15 AM, JKirkpatrick wrote:

> All that this suggests to me is that kids are born with a
> self-preservation instinct, hence lying when doing what they were
> told not to do.

That is exactly the conclusion of the developmental psychologist.

> In fact these so-called experiments
> are simply training kids to lie....preparing them, for the big
> world ahead.

I doubt the experiments are training people to do anything they are not naturally inclined to do in the first place. The way the experiment is set up, it looks to me as though it is mostly just recording what children do. (Did I forget to add that all the children in the experiment were from religious minorities and that when they were caught lying in the experiment, they were then put into cages with big, hungry dogs in Guantánamo?)