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It's possible that the notion of moral plasticity has taken hold in part because of this flawed experiment that set out to prove it. That people feel moral plas
by Kalium 8y ago
It's possible that the notion of moral plasticity has taken hold in part because of this flawed experiment that set out to prove it. That people feel moral plasticity to be a thing in the wake of being systematically lied to the tune of "moral plasticity is a thing!" should not be taken as evidence of moral plasticity. That is at best circular reasoning.
Indeed, by that line of reasoning every religion should be thought to be true simultaneously, as their respective adherents feel them to be true.
The only confirmation I see here is that of squishies being over-eager to fit facts to convenient and familiar narratives.
- mcguire 8y agoThere is a persistent story that there are "good" people and "bad" people, and that "good people" only do bad things under very extreme circumstances. Everyone wants to believe they would never do that, for various definitions of that. Only real monsters would do that. There is plenty of evidence that this story is false, yet one sees it constantly.