Applying the Findings of the Science of Morality
When deontologism and consequentialism contemplate trolleys, the former is about ==moral intuitions rooted in the Ventromedial PFC, Amygdala, and insular cortex (insula)==, while the latter is the domain of the dorsolateral PFC and moral reasoning.
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==“Our moral brains evolved to help us spread our genes==, not to maximize our collective happiness.”
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approximately 30 percent of subjects were consistently deontologists, unwilling to either pull a lever or push a person, even at the cost of those five lives. Another 30 percent were always utilitarian, willing to pull or push. And for everyone else, moral philosophies were context dependent.
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see also
The Trolley Problem
Empathy, Sympathy, and Moral Reasoning
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Chapter 13 Morality and Doing the Right Thing Once You’ve Figured Out What That Is
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