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7-8-2008 8:59 PM
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Silkweaver says:
The researchers then "constrained cognition" by asking subjects to memorize long strings of numbers. In this greatly distracted state, subjects became impartial. They thought their own transgressions were just as terrible as those of others.

This suggests that we are intuitively moral beings, but "when we are given time to think about it, we construct arguments about why what we did wasn’t that bad,"
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7-8-2008 9:01 PM
Silkweaver
So hypocrisy emerged with consciousness ?
7-8-2008 9:12 PM
wildcat
only if one equates memorizing with consciousness
7-9-2008 1:28 PM
pokkets
One of the biggest traps is the hypothetical. "If I was in that situation I would" They very often take little into account of the conditions as they really are. i.e. It's easy to imagine that cold can be endured when it stays in the province of the imagination, but when a chill hits the bones in real life, not only is the cold inescapable, but it changes the way you think. Many hypothetical scenarios, do not account for the onset of despair, which can be impossible to imagine, or even recreate, in retrospect having being suffered before. Our mind can refuse to entertain the thought. the concept of hypocrisy is so condemned, it has become a buzz word that can be denied without consideration...
7-10-2008 10:02 AM
tabsey
True. Be radical - think
7-14-2008 12:36 PM
janclip1300
I admit I'm a hypocrite, but i also agree with pokkets arguments. How I will react in a given situation, depends on a lot more things then ever could be contained in a simulation or even could be imagined by myself. I don't think I would 'produce' the same results on every occasion. You may want to prove that I like apples, but you won't get same results after 100 times. You may want to test my social skills, but it won't tell you how I'll react when I have a tooth-ache.
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