http://bigthink.com/videos/are-you-a-psychopath-take-the-test
One type of intuition is moral intuition or ethics intuition. An easy way to explain it is have you found yourself feeling guilty when someone is criticizing a friend of yours or when you think "that's wrong"or "that doesn't feel right'', that is moral intuition. moral intuition is usually based on your family, religious or social values that person holds. The video describes two different scenarios; one where a train is heading for five people to run them over, the only way to save then is by a pretty large person stopping the train which would also cause their death. to save the five people you have to pull a lever that would send the large person in front of the train to stop it as well as die. would you pull the lever? the other scenario would be again five people are about to get hit my a train and die, again the only way to save them would be by the large person being in front of the train to stop it but again he would die, the difference in this scenario is that this time there is no lever instead you have to physically push the heavy man in front of the train, so would you push the man in front of the train? statistics showed that more people were willing to pull the lever but no push the man, both have the same out come so why the big difference? why is it okay to pull a lever and its not okay to push the heavy man? moral ethics.
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