Are Babies Born Good

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Are babies born good or taught to be good? Throughout the years many psychologist have gone to try to test to see whether babies are born with innate morals or taught it has been difficult to test babies because they cannot communicate like older children can. They used many different scenarios such as using puppets to illustrate different behaviors and the babies had to chose which one they felt like was good or bad. With that I believe children aren’t necessary taught but they do what they see their parents do, and they feel that is the correct way to do things. Psychologist also do believe babies are born with morality they start to feel sympathy as early as six months. As babies start to get older they start to learn that everyone is

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