Moral Senselessness

In a post titled My moral midgetry, Daniel Drezner points us to a Moral Sense Test, which is sponsored by the Cognitive Evolution Laboratory, Harvard University.

Drezner has this to say about the results from his taking of the test.

In the scenarios I was given, I awarded an average of $129 in fines. The average response of all test takers was approximately $72,000.

So, clearly, I’m a heartless bastard. [And you also like to make fun of short people!!—ed.] Or, I’m more willing to blame fortuna than people when bad but (largely) accidental things happen.

I took the test a moment this morning, and I awarded zero (0) in fines, and I’m having a difficult time reconciling that individuals taking this little morality test are supposedly awarding an average of $72,000, plus, in fines, which seems senseless to me, or a display of moral senselessness on the part of the test takees.

If Drezner’s a heartless bastard, his words not mine, I must be dead.

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