Specific Purpose Statement: To invite my audience to consider whether or not morals are something humans are predisposed and born with or rather it’s a concept learned through societal teachings.
Thesis: Studies have shown that babies are born with some morals, but is it realistic to assume deviant nature is triggered from these innate findings.
Introduction
[Attention-Getter] Imagine your niece or nephew or perhaps the child that you babysit. I’m sure you have seen these children show bias or favoritism over a certain object, food, ect... for some unknown reason.
Let’s consider you are playing a giving game with two children.
Each round you let one child decide how many tokens they get to keep for themselves and how many the other child gets. If the game was fair, each child …show more content…
“We are predisposed to break the world up into different human groups based on the most subtle and seemingly irrelevant cues, and that, to some extent, is the dark side of morality.” (2012)
Now that I have shared with you some tests and views on what impacts morals, I’d like to hear your thoughts and opinions on the topic.
Dialogue Questions
Close- Ended Questions
By a show of hands, do you think it’s possible that humans are born with a sense of right and wrong. Why or why not?
By a show of hands how many of you feel as though you have decided or chosen your morals? Why or why not?
II. Open- Ended Questions
Are there any outside influences you view as a crucial to development? If so, what are they?
In what ways might innate instincts influence our morals? I mentioned that 87% of babies wanted to see the puppet who was “different” treated badly. Does that surprise you?
Conclusion
I. [Signal End] As we have learned,
II. [Review] Morality is a very complex topic.
We have explored some factors that can cause an impact with a person's sense of morality and have been guided by the question of whether or not human morals are pre-existing or if society simply shapes what already
Thesis: Studies have shown that babies are born with some morals, but is it realistic to assume deviant nature is triggered from these innate findings.
Introduction
[Attention-Getter] Imagine your niece or nephew or perhaps the child that you babysit. I’m sure you have seen these children show bias or favoritism over a certain object, food, ect... for some unknown reason.
Let’s consider you are playing a giving game with two children.
Each round you let one child decide how many tokens they get to keep for themselves and how many the other child gets. If the game was fair, each child …show more content…
“We are predisposed to break the world up into different human groups based on the most subtle and seemingly irrelevant cues, and that, to some extent, is the dark side of morality.” (2012)
Now that I have shared with you some tests and views on what impacts morals, I’d like to hear your thoughts and opinions on the topic.
Dialogue Questions
Close- Ended Questions
By a show of hands, do you think it’s possible that humans are born with a sense of right and wrong. Why or why not?
By a show of hands how many of you feel as though you have decided or chosen your morals? Why or why not?
II. Open- Ended Questions
Are there any outside influences you view as a crucial to development? If so, what are they?
In what ways might innate instincts influence our morals? I mentioned that 87% of babies wanted to see the puppet who was “different” treated badly. Does that surprise you?
Conclusion
I. [Signal End] As we have learned,
II. [Review] Morality is a very complex topic.
We have explored some factors that can cause an impact with a person's sense of morality and have been guided by the question of whether or not human morals are pre-existing or if society simply shapes what already