Children as young as three years old are willing to punish others' bad behavior, even at personal cost, finds a new study by psychology researchers at New York University. The work adds to growing evidence that human beings distinguish between right and wrong at a very young age and are willing to pay a personal cost to encourage positive behavior in others. [1]
We feel obliged to impose order.
We feel a duty to be good and nice.
But in a cosmos void of everything, how could this make any sense?
No, you do not have the power to punish.
How could you anyway?
And yet, here you are.
Sensing that power to punish…
Believing in it. Perhaps exactly because it shouldn’t be there in the first place!
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We feel obliged to impose order.
We feel a duty to be good and nice.
But in a cosmos void of everything, how could this make any sense?
No, you do not have the power to punish.
How could you anyway?
And yet, here you are.
Sensing that power to punish…
Believing in it. Perhaps exactly because it shouldn’t be there in the first place!
(c) Philosophy WIRES - Commenting world news from philosophy's perspective…
