Tuesday, September 15, 2009

What Makes Us Moral?

The morality of every human being is not the same. Nobody has yet been able to figure out what makes us do the things we do. There are so many people in the world that are so unselfish that they will give other people their own body parts, while others are serial killers. As the article shows, it seems that young people don't want to do things that they know are bad even when they are told it is okay to do so. Researchers are trying to figure out where certain intuitions come from because it could maybe help us in the future from becoming savage. I love stories that shows the beautiful gifts of people or animals helping others and I like to believe that people are truly just doing kind things out of the goodness of their heart.
It is hard to look at the study they did with the trolley dilemma. Everybody would want to save the five people at no cost, but it is hard when it comes to saving five lives or one. I think that I couldn't kill the unsuspecting man to save the five people because deep down you know you killed that man. A study also showed that people who aren't familiar with another, don't have anything in common with a person they love, feel like they don't need to have the same respect for them. We are still a little bit savage people, but hopefully as studies and research is done we can fix that.