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
https://thinkneuroscience.wordpress.com ... ur-morals/