By and large 5 years old don’t have such lofty values (well lofty for you at least). And they are incredibly cruel—maybe you weren’t but then you were an outlier. I suspect you were probably less kind and more selfish than you are now, even though you didn’t probably didn’t realize it at the time (and probably couldn’t, and that’s precisely why children tend to be like this, it’s incredibly hard for them to course correct without outside intervention).
By and large 5 years old don’t have such lofty values (well lofty for you at least). And they are incredibly cruel—maybe you weren’t but then you were an outlier. I suspect you were probably less kind and more selfish than you are now, even though you didn’t probably didn’t realize it at the time (and probably couldn’t, and that’s precisely why children tend to be like this, it’s incredibly hard for them to course correct without outside intervention).