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by Highlander is semi-retired from AB on December 2nd, 2007

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Is a person's morality innate or acquired?

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  • by FancyFeast on December 2nd, 2007

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    This is the neverending debate that occurs with developmental psychologists : I or A?
    Morality though is less influenced by inner causes. Since everything is neutral from the start and only humans can give a positive or negative value to things/events, it necessarily has to be acquired. Acquired from the parents and society in general through their learning of bad and good.
    What might change with innate factors will be the person's openness to new experiences and the person's stubbornness (personnality vs world), thus making them having a different opinion on certain subjects that would require one to have more flexibility in their way of thinking things through. Also, they might have a tendency to have a rebellious personnality or a more difficult temper, but it's nothing that a great education and love can't work against.

    Since no one is born knowing how the society is constructed and what is expected from them, there's no way for them to have a morality vs society from the moment of their birth. Many other factors are indeed innate but good and bad, moral or immoral values aren't.

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