1 What are examples of moral violations Of Conventional violations What is the Moral violations deal with universal authority independence very bad actions that must Conventional violations are moderately bad parochial authority dependent and might Morality difference between the two be punished o Example hitting a classmate not be punished o Example wearing a dress to school 2 What is killology The study of negative effects on people who have killed people in a war 3 What are the five moral foundations and what characterizes each Harm it can never be right to kill a human being Fairness justice fairness and equality Ingroup loyalty to one s group Authority respect for authority Purity chastity 4 How does political orientation relate to the moral foundations It relates to how they feel about abortion homosexuality welfare taxes national security school prayer international governance corporate oversight abstinence education and the dealth penalty o All of these issues listed deal with morality yet they are all political platforms 5 What evidence of moral universals is there Prohibitions against harm and insistence on fairness 6 What evidence of moral diversity is there Differences between cultures and differences between political ideologies 7 According to Gray Gray and Wegner 2007 what are the two dimensions of mind What is characteristic of each How does this relate to moral responsibility and moral rights The two dimensions of mind are experience and agency o Agency deals with the ability to plan control desire and think o Experience deals with pain fear hunger and pleasure o More experience goes with more moral rights o More agency goes with more moral responsibility 8 What is the trolley problem How do people typically respond to it What does it provide evidence of This example is evidence for utilitarian reasoning doing what makes the best outcome because there are either 5 people tied to the train track and on the other side there is only one person DV how many people pull the lever 80 90 of people pull the lever to kill one person versus killing 5 which is utilitarianism 9 What is moral dumbfounding People judge that some things are wrong but are dumbfounded when asked to generate good reasons why 10 What two factors are at work when people make moral decisions and how do they influence us Reasoned responses and emotional impulses o Reasoned punishment helps people behave better o Emotional I must cause you harm because you harmed me
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