Valid points to an extent. The argument that were born selfish and uncaring is irrelevant, and plainly blind.
We're born, generally speaking, as 6 to 8 pounds of flesh designed to interract with a world that our species has dealt with for longer then history has documanted. We are not selfish by nature, as being selfish is a point of view, and a choice. Weather you want to admit it or not, being selfish has to be choosen, else you would not have the destinction between generosity, and selfishness. A person is selfish when they don't care about the consequence of not earning what they desire.
Back to the bit about what we are by nature... logically speaking, unless you believe that emotional tendencies(Beyond genetic irregularities that: cause depression, or neuralogical structure which causes someone to explicitly not process information, on the whole, like everyone else) and emotion are passed through DNA, then the only answer is were born to cope with the the worlds problems. By this I mean like dying from the cold, or being able to walk and resist gravity... or evade a predator, not the sociological and cultural design weve created ourselves. On that same not, in evolutionary view our society is too young for anything like social interraction to in any way effect DNA, or how were born. So were born to A: reproduce, and B: not die.
Under those circumstances, pleasure is out, pleasure in the classical definition of what we are is the biproduct of reproduction and thus, not a drive for our kind. Not dying however leads us to out tendency to thrive for success, and surpass those around us. This means we either adapt to what is around us and learn to manipulate it, or we fail to expand our selves and grow to be better then the next guy. We as humans don't operate purely on instinct, and instincts have largely been overidden, else when a woman walked by a man, he would simply take the opportunity to reproduce and rape her. Why doesn't this happen? Because in general we've been trained not to do so, because it's wrong, even though our instincts would tell us otherwise, we choose it to be wrong. So, the argument that were born as anything other then an advanced, sentient neurological network with design weighted lightly by instinct, goes out the window.
People only replicate, magnify, and modify what they see, based on previous experience. Proof for this being in the fact that our brains have neurons dedicated to replication of what they see, and the magnification / modification of this input comes from previous restructuring of the neurological connections in our brains(past experience) and the fact that we judge and apply observations on how they apply to each of our experiences, and our lives.
A person is only as good as the people who have guided him, and the genetics he has recieved. We aren't anything by birth, and that's why I have hope for the future, because we can choose.
On that note, obviously his parents have failed to apply an understanding that you don't get what you want by crying. Discipline comes from respect, and children aren't stupid, so if they see their parents being lazy, they will be lazy. If they see their parents yell at each other over petty issues, they will do the same to their parents.
[Edit] If you don't instill the facts of life early in a kids life he's never going to understand, and the kid in that video will never understand, he's a spoiled brat.
I don't blame parent for everything, genetics as I said plays a part in the way a person learns, and sometimes, you just won't see eye to eye with a kid. But I do blame lazy parents for a lot.
We're born, generally speaking, as 6 to 8 pounds of flesh designed to interract with a world that our species has dealt with for longer then history has documanted. We are not selfish by nature, as being selfish is a point of view, and a choice. Weather you want to admit it or not, being selfish has to be choosen, else you would not have the destinction between generosity, and selfishness. A person is selfish when they don't care about the consequence of not earning what they desire.
Back to the bit about what we are by nature... logically speaking, unless you believe that emotional tendencies(Beyond genetic irregularities that: cause depression, or neuralogical structure which causes someone to explicitly not process information, on the whole, like everyone else) and emotion are passed through DNA, then the only answer is were born to cope with the the worlds problems. By this I mean like dying from the cold, or being able to walk and resist gravity... or evade a predator, not the sociological and cultural design weve created ourselves. On that same not, in evolutionary view our society is too young for anything like social interraction to in any way effect DNA, or how were born. So were born to A: reproduce, and B: not die.
Under those circumstances, pleasure is out, pleasure in the classical definition of what we are is the biproduct of reproduction and thus, not a drive for our kind. Not dying however leads us to out tendency to thrive for success, and surpass those around us. This means we either adapt to what is around us and learn to manipulate it, or we fail to expand our selves and grow to be better then the next guy. We as humans don't operate purely on instinct, and instincts have largely been overidden, else when a woman walked by a man, he would simply take the opportunity to reproduce and rape her. Why doesn't this happen? Because in general we've been trained not to do so, because it's wrong, even though our instincts would tell us otherwise, we choose it to be wrong. So, the argument that were born as anything other then an advanced, sentient neurological network with design weighted lightly by instinct, goes out the window.
People only replicate, magnify, and modify what they see, based on previous experience. Proof for this being in the fact that our brains have neurons dedicated to replication of what they see, and the magnification / modification of this input comes from previous restructuring of the neurological connections in our brains(past experience) and the fact that we judge and apply observations on how they apply to each of our experiences, and our lives.
A person is only as good as the people who have guided him, and the genetics he has recieved. We aren't anything by birth, and that's why I have hope for the future, because we can choose.
On that note, obviously his parents have failed to apply an understanding that you don't get what you want by crying. Discipline comes from respect, and children aren't stupid, so if they see their parents being lazy, they will be lazy. If they see their parents yell at each other over petty issues, they will do the same to their parents.
[Edit] If you don't instill the facts of life early in a kids life he's never going to understand, and the kid in that video will never understand, he's a spoiled brat.
I don't blame parent for everything, genetics as I said plays a part in the way a person learns, and sometimes, you just won't see eye to eye with a kid. But I do blame lazy parents for a lot.