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RE: Do Visceral States Like Hunger Affect Morality?

in #psychology8 years ago

It makes sense really.
With regards to the drugs I would also think how addictive the drug was, such as heroine which seems over-ride all morals.
I have a friend in Liverpool ho deals with heroine addicts and he told me that literally steal from their mothers or their or children.
Also in extreme cases I the survival instinct pushes aside our moral base completely out the window
Wasnt there a famous case years back of a plane crashed and people survived by eating the dead. If I recall no one judged them badly for this.
Very interesting.

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Yes it was in the 1970s. Basic drives do seem to over-rule morality.

For me it highlights the issue that a law can not ever be made as a solid wall.
That human beings will always have to take such things into account and weigh the up moral dilemma.
I mean could we ever create a bot to judge such things?
Im not so sure.

Exactly I think you are right.