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Sam Harris | #338 - The Sin of Moral Equivalence
samharris.orgalso read Descartes’ Error, by the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio.22 Damasio had noticed an unusual pattern of symptoms in patients who had suffered brain damage to a specific part of the brain—the ventromedial (i.e., bottom-middle) prefrontal cortex (abbreviated vmPFC; it’s the region just behind and above the bridge of the nose). Their emotionali
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Ben-Nun Bloom indicates that popular measures of values and morality have a common genetic basis.
Oxford University Press • The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES)
The Trolley Problem: A runaway trolley is about to kill five people on the tracks. You can pull a lever to divert it to another track where it will kill only one person. What is the ethical choice? The dilemma explores the conflict between utilitarianism (the greatest good for the greatest number) and deontological ethics (the belief that some acti
... See moreOne of the most robust findings in criminology is that increasing the severity of punishment has little deterrent effect. People simply aren’t as sensitive to the potential costs of crime as the rational-choice model predicts they should be, and so efforts to reduce it by cracking down have failed to justify the immense fiscal and social costs of m
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Absurd Trolley Problems
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