Don’t you just love these kind of studies? Researchers go so far out of their way to uncover a physiological reason for morally bankrupt behavior, as if we are all animals and act merely on instinct and chemicals coursing through our veins.
No study that limits itself to the physical realm can mitigate the moral responsibility that all human beings bear for their own actions. After all, what separates humans from other mammals is their ability to perceive the difference between right and wrong, and choose one or the other regardless of their physical impulses or base urges. But that kind of thinking (recognizing that human beings are moral agents) — while civilized — has no quarter in the sterile ivory towers of academic elites.
John Dias
Founder, DontMakeHerMad.com
http://www.dontmakehermad.com/ John Dias
Don’t you just love these kind of studies? Researchers go so far out of their way to uncover a physiological reason for morally bankrupt behavior, as if we are all animals and act merely on instinct and chemicals coursing through our veins.
No study that limits itself to the physical realm can mitigate the moral responsibility that all human beings bear for their own actions. After all, what separates humans from other mammals is their ability to perceive the difference between right and wrong, and choose one or the other regardless of their physical impulses or base urges. But that kind of thinking (recognizing that human beings are moral agents) — while civilized — has no quarter in the sterile ivory towers of academic elites.
John Dias
Founder, DontMakeHerMad.com
http://www.dontmakehermad.com/ John Dias
Don’t you just love these kind of studies? Researchers go so far out of their way to uncover a physiological reason for morally bankrupt behavior, as if we are all animals and act merely on instinct and chemicals coursing through our veins.
No study that limits itself to the physical realm can mitigate the moral responsibility that all human beings bear for their own actions. After all, what separates humans from other mammals is their ability to perceive the difference between right and wrong, and choose one or the other regardless of their physical impulses or base urges. But that kind of thinking (recognizing that human beings are moral agents) — while civilized — has no quarter in the sterile ivory towers of academic elites.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
–Dwight David Eisenhower, “The Chance for Peace,” speech given to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Apr. 16, 1953.
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