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Message Subject It is impossible to perform an act that is truly evil or truly good.
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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OP you ever contemplate about the nature vs. nurture debate?

It's quite the enigma. A person can inherently have a good heart and the capacity for empathy (which can instill a sense of morality), however children at a young age are highly malleable and can be conditioned and programmed quite easily to subscribe to a wide range of ideologies. I look at some of those videos which display cartoons that are shown to some children in Middle Eastern countries that feature a cartoon mouse blowing up Jews. I wonder how these children have any chance to trascend the conditioning that they are exposed to which serves to normalize destructive behavior. Controlling adults and the pressure to conform to the 'group think' mentality can be immense.

Sometimes I think back to the experiment with Skinner's rat and how they were able to condition a child to fear rats and how that specific conditioning led to fear of other objects that resembled the white rat. What can't you teach a child to believe?
 Quoting: ANHEDONIC


I think a person can be taught to believe almost anything, I personally think to understand the effect nature has on a human being science would need to actually perform an experiment and let a child grow up un-indoctrinated to any science, art or religion and see just how they would think.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1018225


Freud did this. You should check it out.
 
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