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Inquiring Minds

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The Moral Dilemma

Sophie's Choice is traditionally a philosophical sort of sacrificial dilemma. Oxford philosophers tested the moral reasoning of people who do in fact choose to kill the hipster right and they wondered whether these people were really morally superior than those who just don't do anything. People who chose this route also tended to show anti-social tendencies that is they had less empathy less aversion to cause harm so they scored high on questions in which they were asked if they would actually in real life kill the hips Kill the Hipster you know i would. These Oxford philosophers are saying that this trolley problem is better suited for discovering psychopaths than for identifying brain regions involved in moral reasoning.

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