are babies born racist?

[Mermaidman]

Babies are born without the ability to control their bowel movements. Doesn't mean they stay that way.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

There's a fairly evident hierarchy in how important an individual will see other individuals to be. If they have children, they will value them first. If not, they value some other immediate family (brother, sister, mother, father, etc) or possibly themselves first. After that it's mostly geographical. Extended family and close friends can be grouped together here. Somewhere after that will be race, then after that will be species. Then there are levels of importance placed on other species, with the ones that share the most recognizable characteristics with us placed at the top (dogs, cats, monkeys, apes, other furry social mammals) and the ones that share the least near the bottom (reptiles, insects, etc).

It's pretty clear that we're instinctively valuing the rest of the world based on it's genetic relation to ourselves, or at least the best way our evolved characteristics have so far of determining that relation. Of course there are notable outliers. People who value animals more than other people, or people who were adopted, etc. A lot of that is just the same instincts being applied to situations they are not evolved to handle. By and large, what I said is true though.

I wasn't being serious. I was being a smartass. It was my smarass reaction to the question at hand.

A day old newborn doesn't have the mental capacity to exhibit race determination.

 

[Jeff7]

Our species has sometimes tried to mix both approaches, resulting in civilizations filled with sex-fiends with regular drug- and alcohol-fueled parties, though they've always been violent at other times.

Now, our Puritan-inspired fools have left us with nothing but violence yet again. Can't we at least have the rampant sex and routine week-long city-wide celebrations of excess? The cattle and/or sheep and/or swine sacrifice at the end could even be dressed down a bit, call it a barbecue and remove the ritualistic chants and hymns.

But, de do do the animal ritual thing. Someone else slaughters it somewhere else. Then it is cut up, and loaded into a steel chariot that is powered by fire. Upon delivery to the celebration, it is placed unto a burning altar of charcoal.
If it is a sporting event, there will be also be numerous raucous chants and hymns, or something along those lines.

I think, in time, mankind will realize we actually have a better chance with such excesses and rituals. It's a time to enjoy the excess and let out pent-up libidos and feelings that could later turn into aggression, which only fouls up the workplace and other aspects of our daily lives.

What really helped along VCRs? Porn.
What made money on the Internet, even through the dot-com bubble? Porn.

It gets shit done.


.....god, I wonder what a bonobo's political debate would be like?




I can only wonder how many cave paintings were related to sex. I doubt you'd see many of those sorts of things get published or shown on the news. Filter, filter, filter.

Sure, you've got all those paintings of some guys chasing down an antelope. It doesn't show what they did to it after they caught it.

 

[Rakehellion]

Now she stares and smiles and waves, hoping to get them to smile back. I think that she's got a case of the jungle fever!

Not in my house!

I'm guessing none of the neighbor kids share that particular skin complexion.

 

[SlitheryDee]

.....god, I wonder what a bonobo's political debate would be like?

They'd probably bang out a solution for any problem in no time flat.

 

[Brian Stirling]

The better question is ... are racists babies?


Brian