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If you bail on an activity with a preschooler, you'd better have a good excuse.
That's because, according to research published this week in the journal Child Development, children as young as three and a half years old understand and value the obligations that accompany joint commitments. The researchers found that children who abandon a cooperative activity for an apparently selfish reason tend to prompt more resentment from their peers than those who quit the task for another reason.
These findings do not just build on a growing body of research suggesting that the very young possess moral capabilities that are more sophisticated than scientists previously thought. They also suggest that the notion of shared obligation is in some ways fundamental to Homo sapiens, the only known animal to create social institutions.
"The kinds of joint commitments we are seeing here in the three-year-olds can be scaled up into legal contracts, in which we mutually pledge to hold up our end of the bargain," says Margarita Svetlova, a visiting assistant professor at Duke University, who co-authored the study with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. "If you really want, you could scale it up to the social contract in general."
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday May 26 2017, @02:00AM (1 child)
The thing about the black baby is silly: you have no idea of the politics of the white woman, and she could very well be a mainstream GOP voter (so-called "compassionate conservative") trying to be nice but fumbling horribly. Or she could be a Hillary voter again trying to be nice but stupidly. Trying to make her a representative of all liberals is pure idiocy, just like trying to claim that Michael Bloomberg is representative of all conservatives, including rural Southern voters.
and supposedly need illegal aliens (essentially non-white slaves) to pick their vegetables. That idea of paying a living wage... what happened to it? Maybe only white people get to have it, but liberals don't actually want to pay?
But this is easily disproven with simple logic, and really shows how terrible you are with basic logic and common sense (as if the baby anecdote wasn't enough): where did you ever get the idea that liberals shopping for vegetables have any control over how much workers are paid? And haven't you noticed that liberals have been screaming for increased minimum wages for ages now? Finally, what do you think the political persuasion of the vegetable farm owners is? (Hint: it isn't liberal; neither farmers nor agribusiness owners/execs are known for being liberal.)
There is one more problem with this idea that liberals are better-educated, and it's a huge one. Look, consider a conservative machinist and a liberal with a PhD in modern dance. You may think the liberal is more educated, but I'm calling bullshit on that one. The machinist has learned (been "educated") to do something usefu
Here you're just being stupid. Machinists do not have an education at all; they have training in a very narrow field. If you have no education in humanities, logic, critical thinking, etc., then you're not "educatied". That's why universities were invented, not to train people for jobs. You want job training, go to a trade school. You sound like someone who has no education and never went to college; people like you frequently poo-poo it because you don't understand the value of an education.
As for "caring about' LGBT people, then why are conservatives trying to push them into Christian "conversion therapy" which is proven to not only not work, but to be mentally abusive? And why do Christian conservatives kick out and disown their LGBT kids as soon as they hit 18?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 26 2017, @06:48AM
Never mind the shoppers and the farmers. Whenever the topic of deportation comes up, liberals everywhere pipe up with the idea that our country can't get by without the illegally employed workers. How could that be true? The only way is that the workers are getting paid below the normal market value for their labor. By being here in great numbers and being willing to violate the law, these workers reduce the value of their labor below what is normal. To say that we need this is to say that we need to pay people below even our current minimum wage, never mind an increased one, and that this is acceptable when the people are hispanic.
I did in fact suffer through a university education. I'm well aware that the non-technical classes are complete bullshit. The most ridiculous illogical nonsense would get an 'A' grade. (done it) You just have to spout the type of disinformation your professor likes. Had I internalized that nonsense, I'd have come out dumber. Logic and critical thinking are not taught in a normal university; that would encourage rejection of liberal values. Why is it that a person can get a PhD in modern dance without having to even pass a math course more complicated than 7th-grade algebra? Lacking that, it sure looks like the degree in modern dance is merely job training in a very narrow field. I can respect the machinist. Hell, I can respect the guy who fixes my roof and the guy who clears out my sewage pipes!
You can kick LGBT kids out of the house and still be **relatively** kind to them. The standard for kindness has reached a new low. Liberals are welcoming supposed refugees who feel it is right to literally toss LGBT off of roofs. This isn't going to end well.