[Chewbacca]

Originally posted by MagiK: quote: Originally posted by Chewbacca: Ummm, I wouldn't typify growing up isolated from behavioral conditioning as nature, and I wouldn't call teaching patterns of behavior that lead to guilt or shame nurture either. Babies and children are an excellent example of what it means to be innocent, and it is natural to nurture them. It is the conditioned abusive and shameful behaviors of the parent that are passed to the child that disrupt a persons natural innocences. Thats what I was driving towards in my post, in other words it is both nature as well as nurture. Religion or the lack of, has little bearing to the teaching, expressing and understanding of compassion, a quality anyone can have. Just my lil perspective...

I see [img]smile.gif[/img] Well I thought that the results of the studies were kind of interesting and did sort of prove that there was no apparent natural programming or spiritual characteristics in the babies. I am however appalled that there are people in this world that could do that to babies and even publish papers on it, and still be able to live with themselves. [/QUOTE]That is quite appalling! Perhaps they skipped the ethics part of their education.