Born Kind?

I read an article on Drudge Report tonight (12/4/20). It was written by John Anderer, today.

Its title: "Born Kind? Researchers Prove Altruism Begins Infancy. The assertion that people are fundamentally good (altruistic) putatively is proven that babies voluntarily shared their fruit with adult researchers at an University of Washington experiment, including a control group and an experimental group of 100 19-month old infants.

Let me define terms first. Moral goodness is an egoistic, or self-centered drive, and includes socially beneficial tendencies like caring, cooperating, sharing and working together.

Moral evil is altruistic behavior. The selfless individual is a selfish individual that competes against others in a law-of-the-jungle mode. Altruism is group-oriented.

The egoist is more generous and the altruist is more selfish.

As Anderer points out, human nature is complicated. I have never denied that we have innate generous drives, but is is a minority propensity and grow out of individualism.

I assert that we are not basically good because we are altruistic, and in groups, we are selfish and dog-eat-dog more than not.