by Woeler » October 2nd, 2012, 6:20 pm
[quote="DGFone"]Finished.
Although, TBH, I felt like this survey is a bit of a cheat, because if you really want to research people's morality, you need to ask questions about their everyday lives, and not these situations that have a 1/1000000 chance of happening.[/quote]
Morality in everyday life is not sufficient to base good results on. An image of morality can only be defined by extremes. Believe me, I had two professors look at this before I published them. One of them studied philosophy and the other studied sociology and I think they know what they're doing.
The validity of the situation does not matter. It is not about whether this could happen or not. It is about what reaction people would have in such a situation. Realism does not matter, the only think that matters are our instincts that are triggered by the situations. I could have used ''alien abduction'', it would not have mattered.
It is about morality, and there is no absolute in morality. all of these situations are valid situations, they all could have happened in the past 100 years. It's not about whether you could, it's about whether you would.
We'll see what people say when I publish the paper. It will be reviewed by 6 professors all around the world, so if they say it's invalid, I will take it all back. (1 in the Netherlands, 2 in the USA, 1 in India, 1 in Australia and 1 in the UK)
anyway, thanks for filling it out!
There are those who complain about the wind, there are those who hope the wind will change, --though the wise-- the wise adjust their sails.
