[lit-ideas] Re: lyre dilemmas



--- On Sun, 21/9/08, wokshevs@xxxxxx <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:

> From: wokshevs@xxxxxx <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
> Subject: 
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, 21 September, 2008, 7:51 PM
> Scientists seduced by the allure of brain science and
> intrigued by moral
> reasoning report that people prefer to "push a
> button" rather than shove
> somebody to his/her death as means to the attainment of the
> same end.

This appears to be true even where the end is immoral - in Godfather II Willie 
Cicci testifies that "When the boss says 'push a button' on a guy, I push a 
button". Note that Cicci would feel silly if he said "When the boss says 'give 
him a shove', I give him a shove."

Donal
Edinburgh



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