why do we treat babies so "well" if they don't remember it anyways?
I'm not suggesting people should start harassing babies, but rather, why the whole "oh he's so cute bububu tickle him" and trying to spoil him them whatever way possible?
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Someone once compared the mentality of having/playing with a baby to the feelings of owning a pet while criticising on them being the same.
And honesty, I really can't disagree with him, most people do seem to only see babies as some kind of human pets.
Only until they grow older people start to see them as someone in the same species.
EDIT: But really though, unless he/she is assaulting/mistreating/neglecting a baby I don't think there is a need to restrict how people do their things.
kids remember things but not actively they remember feelings not things that have been done with them some people get clown phobia only because their parents went into a clown show with their kids. so yes treat them kids well.
I'm not a neurologist or child behavior expert or anything, but from a common sense standpoint, just because the child isn't forming memories doesn't mean they aren't building neural networks / constructing frameworks of how to view the world.
The brain is more than just the hippocampus.