An unusual subject..

[staffrodore]

Imagine this. The entire human race is wiped out by a killer virus....no survivors.

In a lab, where children have been harvested in an experiment, there are human babies in test tube environments that are about to "awaken". No mother, no birth. There is an instant supply of food for them, in their environment, they are safe and the couldn't leave that safe environment until they were old enough to figure out the locking systems. Everything else in the world is as it was, the human race has been wiped out except for these harvested humans, who were speared being exposed to the virus. There is enough of them to start the human race again....if they survived.

(Now ignore the fact that this might not be posssible, and just concentrate on the scenario)

Would they survive?
Would they go on to know right from wrong, and why?
Would they consider their gender/race differences an issue?
There is no conditioning at all in this environment....what would be likely to happen?
How would their experiences effect their way of thinking.?

Go for it....

 

[Mare]

Imagine this. The entire human race is wiped out by a killer virus....no survivors.

In a lab, where children have been harvested in an experiment, there are human babies in test tube environments that are about to "awaken". No mother, no birth. There is an instant supply of food for them, in their environment, they are safe and the couldn't leave that safe environment until they were old enough to figure out the locking systems. Everything else in the world is as it was, the human race has been wiped out except for these harvested humans, who were speared being exposed to the virus. There is enough of them to start the human race again....if they survived.

(Now ignore the fact that this might not be posssible, and just concentrate on the scenario)

Would they survive?
Would they go on to know right from wrong, and why?
Would they consider their gender/race differences an issue?
There is no conditioning at all in this environment....what would be likely to happen?
How would their experiences effect their way of thinking.?

Go for it....

Kinda like back when it was the caveman guess.

What is right from wrong if you don't know any better.

Eventually they would see their genitals were different.

Live & Learn

 

[tonksy]

a few would prolly make it. the rest would fall to everyday dangers because of a lack of parental guidance. they would have to learn first hand about dangers and poisionous foods etc from the fallen or fall themselves. blah blah blah.

 

[unclehobart]

I think that they would stay put in contentment unto death... unless they died from bed sores and a complete lack of sanitary conditions as infants. I can't imagine an 18 month old rolling around on a year and a half pile of piss and poo and not having succumbed to methane and lord knows what else. Even under the best of conditions, self-reliance takes years and years to instill. With no other 'animals' to emulate ... mass confusion and nothingness.

 

[Winky]

Without 'parents' they would DIE!!!

Reminds me of that experiment they did where they took a baby monkey away from its mom and isolated it. Although they provided for it's material needs with out supplying the maternal needs it became completely whacked!

Anyone who has raised a child to adulthood knows how parenting effects their offspring.

I see what your intention was in this and no even foregoing the obvious faults
in your premise the creatures would be uncivilized ignorant savages.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

Bears'd git 'em.

(Translation for those not fluent in redneck: Bears would get them.)

 

[Leslie]

Bearzzud geddum eh?

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

Bearzzud geddum eh?

Ayup. Dambars'd git purt near anythan'll set steel lawng nuff. Cayn't put nutt'n pas' a bar, they's crafty ol critters.

 

[chcr]

Without 'parents' they would DIE!!!

Reminds me of that experiment they did where they took a baby monkey away from its mom and isolated it. Although they provided for it's material needs with out supplying the maternal needs it became completely whacked!

Anyone who has raised a child to adulthood knows how parenting effects their offspring.

I see what your intention was in this and no even foregoing the obvious faults
in your premise the creatures would be uncivilized ignorant savages.

Yep, too helpless at birth. They'd die. (Wal, if'n th' bars doan gettum)

If they could live they'd be savages by our standards. Right and wrong are learned, not instinctive. That's why different cultures have different standards of right and wrong.

 

[Gonz]

Assuming there are nanny robots to care for the physical needs of the young'uns, they'd be emotional messes in the long run.

Assuming all things being equal, the answer to your query...the equivolence of a RESTART.

 

[MrBishop]

Unless something is minding them...I'd give them about 2 days...complete dehydration occurs thereafter.

If something is minding them long enough for them to learn ho to work the machines or which foods will sustain them...then we have ourselves one hell of a social experiment.

No language for the first generation until their children come along. The golden rule (do onto others...) and survival of the fittest would apply automatically. Straight physical heirarchy...a place for everyone and everyone firmly in their place. Lots of deaths by accident and illness...no medecines, no herbology. Lots of nutritional issues until they can figure out how fire works... our teeth and digestion system as is can't handle uncooked foods, especailly uncooked meat, as well as Homo Erectus or Robustus could. Racism wouldn't exist per-se....sexism would though. Women, welcome back to the subservient baby-making and minding machines.

Providing that they survive long enough....a healthier and stronger humankind, with one language, one religion and no lawyers.