Lecture 22 Morality

Question 1

Evolution Morality

Answer 1

Evolution has cast a circle of morality over different cultures in which most cultures follow, the same with food practices

Question 2

Why do we have morality?

Answer 2

The theory that claims that we have morality to benefit our group but not necessarily the outside group. The groups that were the most moral and cooperative were the most successful.

Question 3

150

Answer 3

is the number of people you can keep in your head, the average size of a group,

Question 4

Large group size

Answer 4

The larger the size of a primates brain the larger their respective group.

Question 5

evolutionary conflict

Answer 5

Groups in competition within our own species, (if you’re eating blueberries, you will have to compete with other groups who also eat blueberries)

Question 6

Self

Answer 6

I care about myself and my family.

Question 7

Friendship:

Answer 7

I care for historical cooperation partners ( you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours)

Question 8

Tribalism:

Answer 8

I care about us, but not them. ( where you see nationalism)

Question 9

the tragedy of the commons

Answer 9

if there is a shared resource that no one is responsible for, (throwing a cup in the park), Mediterranean see for example because no one wants to take responsibility to stay competitive with fishing.

Question 10

How do we know morality evolved

Answer 10

If you’re mind is occupied you are more likely to act instinctively,

Question 11

Prisoners dilemma

Answer 11

Do you cooperate to help yourself, or do you help your partner in crime, if you make them do it quickly they are more likely to cooperate, if you give them time they will not cooperate.

Question 12

In a moral dilemma

Answer 12

Your brain is in conflict with itself, the front brain is utilitarian while you back side of the brain is more ontological.

Question 13

Natural aversion to killing

Answer 13

People tend to avoid killing people, so the military trains people to kill

Question 14

Haidt’s Moral Foundations Theory

Answer 14

You have a tendency to do either or in a given situation

Care/Harm

Liberty/Oppression

Authority/Subversion

Fairness/Cheating

Loyalty/Betrayal

Sanctity/Degradation

Question 15

Disgust

Answer 15

One study would present scenarios in which Bob engaged in disgusting behavior, people would judge them more harshly, but even more so if Bob was a disgusting person himself.

Question 16

Moral Dumbfounding

Answer 16

A man comes home with a ready cooked chicken, has intercourse with it and then eats it, nothing wrong with this but the study found that our moral judgements come first before we look at things as they are.

Question 17

Politics and Morals

Answer 17

Right
wing people tend to have all six moral
foundations fairly strong.

Left
wing people tend to have only
care/harm, fairness/oppression, and liberty/oppression strong.

Libertarians tend to only
have liberty/oppression
strong.

This is mostly genetic,
which means your politics
is mostly genetic.

Question 18

Chimps

Answer 18

reconcile after fighting, they also do it with sex, they make sure things that are broken are fixed,

Question 19

Synchronization

Answer 19

Animals follow the same pattern of behavior like yawning, it has to do with empathy the same with consolation.

Question 20

Fairness Study

Answer 20

Two monkeys were put side by side, they are willing to do any task with cucumber, with grapes you create inequity, the monkeys were able to realize the inequity and reacted to not wanting the cucumber.