The Crying Baby Case Ramps Up the Sticks

In general, people are more willing to do the horrible thing in the name of the greater good if it involves hurting somebody who would end up being harmed anyway. If you give people brain scans as they consider such dilemmas, you can almost see different parts of their minds wrestle with something that feels vicually wrong, but logically correct. We told you a second ago that one system for moral reasoning is not better than the other. That's true, but not always. There are situations in our modern world for which the fast intuitive system in our heads is not well designed. They were not designed for a time when we are capable of helping people on the other side of the world....