Mind's Eye Re: Out of the mouths of babes

Yes- I have seen/read about this. It depends on the nurture and
envionment. Some are lucky to survive their childhood- their
adulthood- and make it to old age in one piece with peace of heart and
mind! And don't take my money! :-)

On Feb 18, 5:29 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "We think children are born with a skeleton of general expectations
> about fairness," explains Sloane, "and these principles and concepts
> get shaped in different ways depending on the culture and the
> environment they're brought up in." Some cultures value sharing more
> than others, but the ideas that resources should be equally
> distributed and rewards allocated according to effort are innate and
> universal.
> Other survival instincts can intervene. Self-interest is one, as is
> loyalty to the in-group -- your family, your tribe, your team. It's
> much harder to abide by that abstract sense of fairness when you want
> all the cookies -- or your team is hungry. That's why children need
> reminders to share and practice in the discipline of doing the right
> thing in spite of their desires.
> Still, says Sloane, "helping children behave more morally may not be
> as hard as it would be if they didn't have that skeleton of
> expectations."
> This innate moral sense might also explain the power of early trauma,
> Sloane says. Aside from fairness, research has shown that small
> children expect people not to harm others and to help others in
> distress. "If they witness events that violate those expectations in
> extreme ways, it could explain why these events have such negative and
> enduring consequences."
>
> The above is from a recent Science Digest.  It's really this kind of
> morality I think might help us in forming an economics.  Doing the
> right thing in spite of desires.  What we need, of course, is more
> understanding of how we violate this childishness as rationalising
> adults.