Tag Archives: moral sense

Magnets & Morality

I’m not entirely sure how this fits into Derb’s discussion below (if at all), but here, FWIW, is this: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — MIT neuroscientists have shown they can influence people’s moral judgments by disrupting a specific brain region — a … Continue reading

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Nice animals

Conservative pundits occasionally imply that other-directed human virtues, such as charity, compassion, and mercy, came on the scene only thanks to Christianity.  No one has ever shown hospitality to a stranger or helped survivors of an earthquake in other cultures, … Continue reading

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