"Men More Likely Than Women..."

"...To Go Back In Time And Kill Hitler: Moral Judgments Study"

Although both men and women carefully considered the consequences of their potential decision, women said they found it harder to commit murder and were more likely to let Hitler survive, the study found.

"Women seem to be more likely to have this negative, emotional, gut-level reaction to causing harm to people in the dilemmas to the one person, whereas men were less likely to express this strong emotional reaction to harm," says lead research author Rebecca Friesdorf. A master's degree student in social psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Friesdorf analyzed 40 data sets from previous studies....

The study considered two contrasting philosophical/ethical principles; utilitarianism, which says committing a harmful action is acceptable if it is for the greatest good for the greatest number of people, and deontology, which holds that breaking moral conventions as held by most people, even to secure a favorable future result, is wrong.

Women were more likely to fall into the deontology camp and agonize for a long time over a decision, while men were somewhat more likely to lean toward utilitarianism and make a quick decision, the researchers found. (read the whole thing)

In defense of the women. If you know the exercise is not real, why not engage in theory and speculation? It's not like you are the president of the United States and Christians are being killed for no other reason than being Christians while you delay and dither as commander in chief.

I was struck by a seemingly innocuous throw away comment Boston marathon bombing survivor Karen Brassard said yesterday during a hastily court steps press conference. She was asked "do you feel like you got justice? and she paused smiled, seeming to reflect, she said "I don't know what justice is". (See video at around 2:15) Would a guy have said something like that? I don't know.

So what did you do?

As individual to take history in your hands and bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice today?

As for myself, I conceived an egg dish involving avocado. I looked in Google images and there ain't nothing like it.

Arc of the moral universe. That kills me. A picture of Himself in Mandela's cell, with those words, and when I search the words all sorts of things come up, monumental things, Google images again: Marble wall, MLK, Theodore Parker, MLK, Obama, Mandela, Mandela, rainbow, basketball, MLK, Obama previous, Obama, MLK,?, rainbow.

Oh, I get it: arc.

How lofty. If he could just keep himself out of things, out of his tribute to somebody else. People notice. At this point his enemies notice every little thing like that. That's another thing that kills me, Twitchy jumps all over that that as you can imagine. They are linking photoshops of Obama by way of mirror seeing himself in Mandela, conversely, Mandela looking for himself in a mirror but seeing Obama there instead.

The Photoshops are predominantly about mirrors. That is the theme people went with. Over and over, back and forth. All those mirrors but I didn't see a Through the Looking Glass, nor a Sleeping Beauty evil Queen's mirror on the wall. Could have done something with Dorian Gray.

All that moral universe arc bending does take a lot of work. Darleen Click asks at Protein Wisdom, What prevents the president from ignoring election laws? That is what Trey Cowdy asks in the video she provides: "My question is this," Cowdy insists, he says the same thing a few times, "if you can suspend immigration laws, or marijuana laws, or mandatory minimums, can you also dispense with election laws?" Devastating. But you have to have shame to be devastated, and there is no shame to be had in taking history in one's hands and bending the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

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