/lit/ - Literature

How do your beliefs square with the existence of feral children?

Children who run off or are abandoned from as young as 3 months to as old as 9 years. They join an animal "tribe" and act as if they were that animal. Wolves, dogs, sheep, bears, birds, crocodiles, monkeys. Completely isolated from civilisation and other humans. When they're eventually found and brought back to human civilisation they often display the following traits:
>Almost insurmountable difficulty learning human language, most failing to learn even basic communication
>Trouble learning to walk on two legs after running on all fours for years
>Complete ignorance of social etiquette or taboos, they will bite or growl, they don't know how to smile, they have no concept of morality and little empathy
>They give the impression of being mentally impaired but seem to possess a form of consciousness
>Physically incapable of using a toilet
>Prefer food raw and uncooked
It's an interesting example of just how much of human behaviour and belief is taught rather than innate.