Tag: Ethics

Many in need of a kidney transplant die before they ever get to the top of the queue waiting for transplants. The problem would not

One would ordinarily have thought our way of understanding other people’s mental states, say, whether someone did something intentionally or unintentionally, should be somehow independent of morality. What our research is showing is that instead our initial moral judgments are actually changing our very understanding of whether the person did it on purpose or not on purpose.

Suppose you see a small child drowning in a pond. If you save him you will ruin your expensive suit. Do you save him? Of course you do. Now think about the world’s extremely poor children who are going to die unless you give enough to a charity designed to help them, such as Unicef or Oxfam. Do you save them? Not often enough.

The single woman who delivered octuplets already had six children under the age of seven. What was her fertility doctor thinking? USA Today poses some

What we eat effects not only our health, but our planet, says Mark Bittman, food columnist for The New York Times. So are you eating morally? Listen to this NPR interview and find out.