Aversive emotional reactions to real or imagined social harms infuse moral judgment and motivate prosocial behavior. Here, we show that the neurotransmitter serotonin directly alters both moral judgment and behavior through increasing subjects’ aversion to personally harming others. We enhanced serotonin in healthy volunteers with citalopram (a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) and contrasted its effects with both a pharmacological control treatment and a placebo on tests of moral judgment and behavior. We measured the drugs effects on moral judgment in a set of moral dilemmas pitting utilitarian outcomes (e.g., saving five lives) against highly aversive harmful actions (e.g., killing an innocent person). Enhancing serotonin made subjects more likely to judge harmful actions as forbidden, but only in cases where harms were emotionally salient. This harm-avoidant bias after citalopram was also evident in behavior during the ultimatum game, in which subjects decide to accept o
The state of the art in robotics and artificial intelligence continues to advance at an accelerating clip, surprising experts and futurists. Increasingly complex and in telligent machines are changing the texture of human life as they are insinuated into more spheres of activity, from manufacturing to law enforcement to stock trading.
Military applications have historically been one of the greatest drivers of innovation. We can trace the history of warfighting and especially its recent history as a long arc of removing the warfighter more and more from harm’s way.
1 The so-called “drones” in America’s arsenal represent the latest in this progression, though, importantly, they still require a human to make the potentially lethal decision to engage a target.
joe and i are not intimidate and his bizarre behavior contravenes both the constitution and basic moral judgment. there is ul all we re going to say on the matter. we are continue to focus on more pressing issues like the nuclear conflict with north korea. we hope the president will do the same. so we ll focus more now on, if t. united nations security council convened the latest missile launch. ambassador nikki haley again issued a dire warning. yesterday, the north korean regime made a choice. it cho ez to feed its nuclear aggression. it chose to thumb its nose at the civilized world. it chose to challenge the patience of a world united against its recklessness. we have never sought war with north korea and still today we do not seek it. if war does come, it will be because of continued acts of aggression like we witnessed
clear-cut? that s the concern on something like this. it goes to the debate about when you re allowed to call something a public favor a lie. with intent to deceive. it meets every definition of a lie. but 6th believes it. it is the george costanza rule. is it a lie if you believe it? he can t unless he thinks there was an evil twin. this is something the entire republican party faces with the president and with roy moore. sure, the president has made the calculation that he is going to protect his relationship with his most passionate supporters at the cost of a political judgment, moral judgment. he wants the seat. he wants the seat more than he wants to take a moral stand. that s fine. but do they want to go along with him on that ride? that s a much tougher question.