“Ethics are learned, not innate”
Agree
- Different cultures have different values
- Children need moral teaching
- We adapt ethics through experience
- Society shapes our principles
- No universal moral instinct observed
Disagree
- Babies show empathy instinctively
- Basic fairness appears universal
- Moral intuitions emerge too early
- Evolution built in cooperation
- Core right and wrong feel innate
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