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i think one's capacity for self delusion/rationalization vastly outweighs whatever one's moral compass is telling them to do. before you went applying this to
by sigstoat 17y ago
i think one's capacity for self delusion/rationalization vastly outweighs whatever one's moral compass is telling them to do.
before you went applying this to folks' brains, you could poll convicted criminals to determine what sort of morality they're operating off of, and see if it even differs statistically from the population as a whole. i'd be surprised if it did. perhaps someone has already studied this? any ideas?
- tokenadult 17y agoyou could poll convicted criminals to determine what sort of morality they're operating off of, and see if it even differs statistically from the population as a whole. There have been studies of this nature. I recall seeing a report about such interviews with criminals quite a long time ago, on the United States television program Sixty Minutes. Convicted criminals generally use considerably different moral reasoning from typical members of the public without criminal records. One example: a prison inmate was asked how he felt about taking other people's possessions. He replied, "I think of it as MY thing, not his thing."