CGSC 1001 Lecture 10: CGSC 1001 - CARLETON DAVIES - COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF MORALITY
14 Dec 2018
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Because it helps us take care of other people in our groups not others. All animals have instincts for gene-preservation (with exceptions) People that you have cooperated with in the past. Shared with chimps - treat friends better than others. Sharing food uses to be a life and death matter for us. Seeing someone of the same ethnicity in another country. Tragedy of the commons - shared resource and theres distributed responsibility. Great salt lake - environmentally doing ok due to the entire lake is in one state in america (utah) Compared to mediterranean sea - shared b multiple countries, now sh is depleted. Anthropological survey shows that ethnocentrism is universal - every culture thinks they are the best. I care about all people or creatures that can have positive or negative experiences. Anyone/thing that can feel pain should be cared for. In general, evolved and well-learned behaviours work faster than deliberate ones.
