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The Moral Instinct
1. How do moral judgments differ from other kinds of opinions?
2. What is the Law of Conservation of Moralization?
3. What do you think Pinker meant by "people tend to align their moralization with their own lifestyles"(p.4)?
4. How is moral decision-making different than objective decision-making?
1. Explain how Jonathan Cohen's research using the MRI helps us understand how we make moral decisions?
1. Name the moral characteristics that anthropologists and psychologists consider to be innate, which influence our moral decision-making. Which of these characteristics explain why most people consider Mother Teresa to be more humanitarian than Bill Gates?
1. What evidence exists to support a theory that morality is universal?
1. Is morality universal (constant), variable, or both? Explain.
2. How can self-serving thinking be evolutionary and moralistic at the same time?
3. What is the significance of The Moral Instinct?
4. Do you think Pinker has made "morality" into a science?Explain your answer. Don't forget to ask "What is a science?"