Babies: Are Humans Born Good Or Bad?

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Are humans truly born good or bad? This has been a debate that has been repeated for many years. Sociologists and Philosophers argue whether humans have a good nature that is corrupted by society or a bad nature that is constantly kept in check by society. One way that that Sociologists and Philosophers used to gain evidence on this debate was to look at babies. Babies are humans that basically have no cultural influence because they have never had friends, gone to school, or read books. Experiments carried out by Yale University resulted in evidence that “even the youngest humans have a sense of right and wrong, and, furthermore, an instinct to prefer good over evil” (Stafford). The babies were shown a play with puppets, one puppet being the