I read in an Onion report that they've scientifically declared babies as stupid.
They put various babies through rigorous testing scenarios and found that in all cases babies lacked the basic intelligence to perform even the most basic tasks. Stupid.

One example was they put a baby in a boat, with paddles in the middle of a pond. Not once did any of the baby's tested, even attempt to row them selves to shore when they got hungry, they didn't even try to pick up a paddle. If it wasn't for the researcher's intervening, they felt certain that babies would have just sat there and starved themselves to death as they lacked the necessary intelligence for even basic survival skills.

Given these results, I doubt babies have the basic intelligence to make moral judgements because they're stupid. Just recalling the facts.

It's interesting to hear them talk about the duty of teachers, parents and society to help foster diversity, fairness, cooperation, kindness and acceptance of others in kids. It doesn't seem coincidental that conservative politics specifically target academia, social democracy, science, the cultural arts, public institutions, social welfare programs, healthcare, "collectivism" and even parents in the case of one bizzarre anarcho-capitalist faction.

They see cognitive development as an enemy.

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Reminds me of the doll study and the work of Alison Gopnik.

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I'm bawling right now. Fuck. Crap. I hate this, I hate this, I hate this.

Goddamn it all to hell.

Speaking of how hardwired we humans come into existence, I once read something about a study that they did with newborn babies. Like just some days old newborns. They put these two items above these kids, so that they could look at them while they lie in their beds and tracked the babies eye movements. The two items where a little car, made of metal and a nice round sun (like a stuffed animal). The interesting thing they found out was that the majority of the male babies looked way more often and longer at the car, whilst the majority of the female babies looked at the sun.
It's quite impressive to see how predestined we are.... some people are just born car mechanics.

I don't actually find this video depressing at all. Babies are born desperate to join in to their parent's group and to "fit in". As babies we need to do this for our early development, but when passing into adulthood we tend to question EVERYTHING and drive our parents mental.

A related study on how we make choices in general is "The art of Choosing" by Sheena Iyengar.

As for the doll study that trancecoach linked, it is pretty sad and depressing. I wonder whether you can take it at face value though, or whether it's really showing that kids will choose the answer that they think the old, white, male, authority figure in charge of the study wants to hear. The newer studies always spend a lot of time trying to work out ways to avoid problems like that, but I saw no evidence that that one did.

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