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This is just something that I thought of a minute ago while I was scanning the headlines on the BBC. There's a polar bear cub in Germany who was rejected by his mother. In many cases, these babies are killed because if they were to be raised by a human caretaker, the eventual separation would cause them to become extremely depressed. An animal rights group wants to kill the bear, but the zoo says there's no reason to do so. This may not seem like it has anything to do with neurobio, but I wonder. Are we born with any values? Any taboos? There are certain cultural taboos that exist almost universally, but really...I wonder if our centers for right and wrong lean a certain way at birth. If the brain is home to everything, it is also the house of morality and difficult choices.