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Well we learn the behaviors hat are most beneficial. For example, we learn to follow rules to avoid punishment. (This is a very basic example. I know not everyone follows the rules but behavior is very complex. For example, maybe a child doesn't follow the rules to gain popularity from friends or attention from adults which is a reward that may outweigh the punishment for that individual) Than what kind of behavior shall we learn? That which makes us happy, or unhappy? I still believe we're born blank. What the giraffes are doing is just an innate drive. Like how baby's cry when they need something. They just know to do it. It's not in their DNA to do it. DNA doesn't carry behavior. Behavior is learnt apart from behaviors from innate drives that assist our survival. Maybe people are not born blank, but DNA does transfer some *stuff* aside from our looks. For example, how does a young giraffe know that it should eat on a bone if having calcium deficiency, having seen no other giraffe do the same thing, and being totally vegetarian? This was witnessed by nature observers, and documented. People are born blank. They are taught he concept of good or bad and have either one of those behaviors reinforced through conditioning, rewards and punishments.There is no good or evil. Infants are born into the world without a concept of good or evil, because naturally it doesn't exist, it is only an ideal. They are grown to understand the concepts of good and evil and then they base their decisions in life on what the ideals has taught them. It is funny how morals has governed our decisions on everything when it is only an ideal. People are neither born good nor bad, they are born 'neutral', or to be more precised, unformed. They grow good or bad.

Probably most of people can become bad (or good) if exposed to adequate conditions for long enough (years). Society should provide environment for nourishment of positive things in us.

People are born good.