Babies are born with the ability to communicate their immediate needs to their mothers, nurses, or caregivers through crying or displaying other emotions. As they develop more knowledge of language, they are able to point, look at objects and smile to recognize whether or not they are satisfied with what they are receiving. Just as children are born with the ability to communicate needs and emotions and a desire to try new things and master them, it stands to reason that they have many other inexplicable desires including the desire to please, love, and empathize with others. Many studies have been conducted on babies in daycare centers who cry at the sound of other babies crying. Some argue that this crying reaction is actually a warning sound, so to speak, letting other babies know that there may be something to fear coming. If there was a warning, it would seem that babies wouldn't cry over a dirty diaper or hunger. I like to imagine that the other children actually feel some sort of empathy for the original crier and show it through their worrying cries. This is a type of manifestation created by nature that is seen even with the smallest animals. In a litter, when one starts crying all the others start crying too. Monkeys display consolation behavior, “which is defined as providing reassuring bodily contact to others in distress” to show empathy (De Waal). Studies have shown that body contact has an effect on calming others in distress. Perhaps this body contact also benefits the monkey offering it by reducing his own pain caused by seeing the other in difficulty. Our emotions greatly influence how we process information and make moral judgments. We take these emotional feelings and turn them into information about our situation... middle of the paper... themselves in other ways even if he is not a murderer. He shows little sympathy towards others, has sublimated aggression and enjoys driving other people crazy. There are many psychopaths and sociopaths who exhibit these obstructive behaviors who do not become murderers and criminals. Some of the best lawyers, CEOs, surgeons, priests and policemen are fully active, law-abiding citizens. The Nature versus Nurture debate has been one of the longest and most enduring debates in our world. Despite all the differences in beliefs, I believe that significant evidence suggests that there is reason to believe that our morality is not simply learned from imitation, trained ethics, or social stimuli (although these play a role in growing it), but it is, like many other natural abilities of the body, part of us starting from the development of our brain in the womb.