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If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural

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Aaron LeClair

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If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural

I found the part about the rats interesting, although cruel.

"No one can say whether giraffes and lions experience moral qualms in the same way people do because no one has been inside a giraffe's head, but it is known that animals can sacrifice their own interests: One experiment found that if each time a rat is given food, its neighbor receives an electric shock, the first rat will eventually forgo eating."
 
Meh, I don't lend much credence to such studies. Starve the rats and see if they still care about shocking their neighbour to eat.

Besides, morality is cultural and subjective.
 
CapnG said:
Meh, I don't lend much credence to such studies. Starve the rats and see if they still care about shocking their neighbour to eat.

Besides, morality is cultural and subjective.
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I didn't think much of most of it, the rat part I liked though, besides the cruelty of course. A test was done where humans were told to give shock therapy and most gave the full jolt of electricity (though they didn't have too). Maybe we should call certain people dirty humans instead of dirty rats.
 
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