The secret of morality
This is a moral dilemma. Is it morally acceptable to redirect a runaway trolley car hurtling toward five workers onto a track with just one worker? How about pushing a man off a footbridge into the path of the trolley to stop it before it hits the hapless workers? Most people say they would sacrifice one life to save five in the first scenario but not the second. In this case, emotion may trump utilitarian logic.
cited from Science 2008, 320:734-37
Neurobiologists, philosophers, psycologists and legal scholars are all looking for the origin of human morality, there are lots of new discoveries recently with the aid of fMRI imaging technique, but the connections of neurons are so complicated, it’s still too early to say which part of the brain is responsible for morality. A more detailed disection of the brain may show us more what we don’t know yet.
it’s so… fake.. if you figure out what “morality” really comes from, let’s figure out of a way to get rid of it..
Comment by vv — September 24, 2008 @ 11:57 pm