Ingrained Sense of Right and Wrong

"Marc D. Hauser, a Harvard biologist, has built on this idea to propose that people are born with a moral grammar wired into their neural circuits by evolution...."

"People are generally unaware of this process because the mind is adept at coming up with plausible rationalizations for why it arrived at a decision generated subconsciously."

"The proposal, if true, would have far-reaching consequences. It implies that parents and teachers are not teaching children the rules of correct behavior from scratch but are, at best, giving shape to an innate behavior. And it suggests that religions are not the source of moral codes but, rather, social enforcers of instinctive moral behavior."

Yes, this seems to make perfect intuitive sense. How many times are you deeply emotionally conflicted over a biological desire and a biological sense of right and wrong? Certainly, this would seem the definition of addiction.

Very interesting article though.

An Evolutionary Theory of Right and Wrong - New York Times