This study shows why we think as we do, not if it's right, that is what the study of morality is.
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;29691970]However, Feral children are also another issue. They clearly don't have any of that going on in them. Is that "justice" motive genetic or societally caused purely by being together?[/QUOTE]
Feral children have either been abandon by their parents because of their lack of social skills and physical impairment or they have lived isolated from humans creating their own version of justice. So I think that justice isn't something feral kids would recognise since they haven't been able to have basic human contact like love and such.
This isn't as much about morality as it is about human behavior and the reasoning for it. Morality is a concept we've invented, the behaviors aren't.
I've always assumed it was common sense, evolutionarily speaking, for this to be the case. Cooperation is integral to survival as a species, and those who would not cooperate could inhibit the reproduction and growth of the species. Nonetheless it's fascinating to have experiments that prove this.
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