No amount of facts regarding our moral psychology can actually determine what is morally right or wrong. True or false? (Hint: Think about this question: does the universality of responses to the trolley problem imply anything about the rightness or wrongness of throwing or not throwing the fat man over the bridge?)
What is morally wrong or right? Is there a list of things to answer this question? No, of course there is not. Anything that one does in life can be determined whether it is right or wrong by different people with different opinions. Moral psychology is not only about what we believe to be right or wrong but it is about how we come to our conclusions as to why people make certain decisions. For example, the question is, what is one’s thought process when faced with a moral dilemma? Not everyone has the same thoughts on what is morally right or wrong. I personally have my own thoughts about this, but what I believe is not what someone else may believe. I base my thoughts on what is right or wrong by what I know, my experiences, and what my parents always taught me, and I’m pretty sure that is how most people define what is right and what is wrong. Therefore, I do not think that there is a sure and confident answer to this question. Frankly, I think it is practically impossible for any amount of facts regarding our moral psychology to actually determine what is morally right or wrong.
Steven Pinker is the author of an article titled, The Moral Instinct. In this article, he describes several situations that need to be determined whether they are morally right or wrong. One of the situations is, a brother and a sister having sex with each other and keep ...