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"And yet results from the actual world do not match this study." I would have given the benefit of the doubt before this study. Based on the huge sample size
by fsloth 11y ago
"And yet results from the actual world do not match this study."
I would have given the benefit of the doubt before this study.
Based on the huge sample size of my two children I cannot fathom how religious upbringing could make them more altruistic than they are.
They share things, because they want to be nice to other people. They have different sensibilities - one is more altruistic than the other - but basically we try to teach to both of them the right thing by asking what they think the other person would feel. Simple as that.
- ars 11y ago> I cannot fathom how religious upbringing could make them more altruistic than they are. It probably couldn't. What it can do is take a parent who would not teach such things to their children and make them into a parent who does. What it did do is take a world that did not think that way, and make it into a world that does think that way. The history of the actions of religions is not always "clean" (the in-group out-of-group thing I mentioned), but the history of the thought is, and that influenced the world more than the deed.