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This doesn't jibe with my personal experience at all. Do you have any evidence for this phenomenon existing? I've heard of willpower being an expendable resour
by _vertigo 7y ago
This doesn't jibe with my personal experience at all. Do you have any evidence for this phenomenon existing?
I've heard of willpower being an expendable resource, but not conscience. I don't feel like it places a burden on my conscience to do the right thing, in fact, the opposite is true - doing things against my conscience causes a mental burden or strain, maybe explainable by cognitive dissonance (I am a moral person // I just did something I consider immoral).
- briefcomment 7y agoI don't have evidence. I've updated my first comment to qualify that. I think what distinguishes this situation from most others is that it is generally rational to follow your conscience. It makes sense to me to follow my conscience and not steal from BestBuy because there are people at the door who may catch me, there are security tags on products, and there are probably cameras. If all of those things disappeared, it is not so rational for me to not steal. In those cases, every time I listen to my conscience, it is with reluctance. In time, I may steal, or I may alter my behavior to not be put in that situation (I'll shop somewhere with those checks). Again, this is a thought exercise, so it may be different in practice.