Can pills change our morals?What else affects our Choices?

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03 Mar 2018, 7:29 pm

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It seems that if we can just wrap our heads around the idea that peoples’ attachment to their ideals is not fixed, but can change, we’re more likely to listen to each other. It’s unclear whether we will ever be able to create a “morality pill”—in part because we have yet to reach consensus on what is “moral” in the first place.4 And we still have a long way to go before we fully understand how brain chemistry shapes moral judgment and behaviour.5 But preliminary work suggests we ought to cultivate a healthy skepticism towards our own sense of right and wrong – it may well be vulnerable to factors below our awareness and beyond our control.

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03 Mar 2018, 8:02 pm

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The motivational underpinnings of ideology
What is it about ideologies that motivates us? Why are we prone to their far-reaching effects? Where does our species’ uncanny enthusiasm for abstract belief systems come from? Psychologists often point to the uncertainty-reducing function of ideology in seeking to explain its motivational potency

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04 Mar 2018, 2:22 pm

I think my morals are good enough as they are.
Of course, some here will argue that.....lol


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04 Mar 2018, 6:26 pm

Raptor wrote:
I think my morals are good enough as they are.
Of course, some here will argue that.....lol


Yes, you are a bit of a rebel...like moi... :wink:
In the autistic society of ultra individuals, we seem to be in the vanguard of this group... 8)
Don't expect to be popular... 8O



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04 Mar 2018, 11:01 pm

Pepe wrote:
Raptor wrote:
I think my morals are good enough as they are.
Of course, some here will argue that.....lol


Yes, you are a bit of a rebel...like moi... :wink:
In the autistic society of ultra individuals, we seem to be in the vanguard of this group... 8)
Don't expect to be popular... 8O


I'm popular in terms of the outrage people express toward me.
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05 Mar 2018, 1:29 am

people are enthusiastic about abstract belief systems, and form them because they don't like it when things are unexplained.

i think most morals are instilled (not permanently) at a young age, honed by whatever "abstract belief system" you happened to grow up around.


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05 Mar 2018, 3:28 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:
people are enthusiastic about abstract belief systems, and form them because they don't like it when things are unexplained.

i think most morals are instilled (not permanently) at a young age, honed by whatever "abstract belief system" you happened to grow up around.


The study suggests that even with an established moral compass, that moral construct can be influenced to some degree with drugs...
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We found that the SSRI influenced people’s moral judgments. On placebo, subjects were less likely to endorse personal harms, relative to impersonal ones, just as other studies have shown. When we enhanced serotonin function with a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), this difference became even more pronounced: the SSRI made people significantly less likely to say it is morally acceptable to kill one person to save many others, especially in those emotionally salient personal scenarios. In other words, the drug made people less utilitarian.2

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