Orphanage deprivation shows mindreading competence requires social engagement

Evidence

The process of socialization consists in the manipulation of moral capacity – not in its production. And the moral capacity that is manipulated entails not only certain principles which later become a passive object of social processing; it includes as well the ability to resist, escape and survive the processing, so that at the end of the day the authority and the responsibility for moral choices rests where they resided at the start: with the human person. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 498 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mind reading competence is learned through cultural scaffolding from birth — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 431; Socialization manipulates but never produces moral capacity — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 498; Most behavioral coding is acquired unconsciously during childhood socialization

Broader Connections

• Socialization manipulates but never produces moral capacity #complicates (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 498