Wednesday, April 17, 2013


"What to add to your grocery list, which route is the quickest to take on the car ride to the grocery store, which brand of milk is the tastiest yet lowest price to buy, what to prepare for dinner. Our lives are full of such commonplace decisions. They are constant throughout our daily routines. These humdrum choices require mainly rational thought in order to be chosen; which solution logically provides the best outcome in the given situation? But what about decisions such as whether or not to turn in a wallet full of cash you found on the sidewalk, cheat on your significant other, rob a bank, or even abort your unborn child? These decisions can be constituted as a different type of decision: a moral decision. Moral decisions occur less frequently than our easy, everyday choices, which primarily call for rational reasoning. Moral decisions require more from us to be chosen since they involve choosing right from wrong. Therefore, the moral decision-making process, despite conflicting arguments, is dictated primarily by emotion instead of reason." Read more...

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  1. Very interesting! I never knew moral decision making comes from emotions rather than reason.

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