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Damage to an area of the brain behind the forehead, inches behind the eyes, transforms the way people make moral judgments in life-or-death situations, scientists are reporting today. In a new study, people with this rare injury expressed increased willingness to kill or harm another person if doing so would save others’ lives.
Damage to the Prefrontal Cortex Increases Utilitarian Moral Judgements (Nature)
The findings are the most direct evidence to date that humans’ native revulsion for hurting others relies on a part of neural anatomy, one that likely evolved before the brain regions responsible for analysis and planning.
Watch the left claim that it is responsible for war-supporters, but not harvesters of stem-cells from fetuses. Related considerations here.
Which is great, because in a few more years that will be about all they have to eat.
I couldn’t find any capybara recipes in English, but I did find some for nutria in this thread, search for Rusty Hammer, about halfway down.
The actor was just 7 when his father was first sent to prison, for murdering a Texas businessman. He was in college when his father was convicted of the judge’s assassination.
This is your body, given for my gustation.
Watch the left claim that this problem not only results from injury, but from genetic abnormalities as well, ie: conservatives are born crazy.
I wonder if banging your head against the ground can cause the injury.
Ironically, I was reading the excerpt and thinking, “It takes an injury to cause that? But I was born that way.”
But then, I’m 3/4 Irish and 1/4 Scottish, so what can you do?
Any bets that this portion:
…gets completely overlooked in most discussions of the study?
Yes, they describe the operation of this brain region as like a “thumb on the scale” of a purely rational consideration. Damasio is a very interesting guy.
Ya know, I like capybaras, too, but not for lunch.
Just how stupid do you have to be to believe that the tendency to defend others is a result of brain damage. Sheesh, what kind of idiot even came up with the original thesis. Talk about humans shorting out evolution. If these idiots were in our gene pool earlier in our evolution the planet would be dominated by either cockroaches or gerbils…or maybe fuzzy bunny rabbits with great sharp teeth.
Ah, I see. With this whoppingly huge sample of 6 people they really think they’ve found a causal relationship. It seems much more likely that with such a small sample size they’ve demonstrated that the incidence of moonbattery is very low. Since none of the six people were gelatineously cowardly enough to not be able to make a moral judgement it seems more likely that a normal person is able to more effectively make life-or-death decisions that would completely freeze a morally deficient moonbat.
tw: Or else75 maybe these idiots just need to go back and repeat research methods 101.
Isn’t a capybara basically the world’s largest rat? Which makes eating it sort of icky?
TW: I like the food here, Ixtliqik, but the meat tastes a little off79. Is it capybara?
I don’t know, RC, the sample is indeed small but the study may be onto something. This is not the only study reaching similar conclusions – that brain damage can dramatically alter one’s emotions and even morals.
More like a hamster.
A hamster on steroids.
“Hello, President”!?!?!?!?
followed by prime time “Me and Hugo”, and then later, on The H Word, Hugo breaks up with Isabelle and finds love for her sisterm who just so happens to LOVE eating capybaras.
Communism sucks.
He was in college when his father was convicted of the judge’s assassination.
The Houston Chronicle had an article on that this morning. The web headline is: Woody Harrelson’s assassin father dies in prison. The dead trees headline was much more sedate: Texas federal judge’s assassin dies in his cell.
The article, taken from the San Antonio Express-News, describes the senior Harrelson’s thoughts on his actions and eventual demise. These came up at his trial. For instance, the Feds retrieved a notepad from his hotel room:
John H. Wood Jr. is the federal judge he assassinated.
More here.
Funny, I had the same reaction as McGehee. My thought, “I guess I’m brain damaged because I can’t contemplate not being willing to defend other people”.
I personally see this as just another cog in the lefty process of changing soldiers into a victim/identity group. They only fight to defend us because they are BRAIN DAMAGED! Don’t you FEEL for them. BRING THE POOR SOLDIERS HOME NOW!!!!!!
Odd, I enlisted before I started playing rugby and got those concussions – so what is my excuse???
Of course, it has been speculated by some, that Charles Harrelson, was one of the three ‘tramps’
photographed near Dealey Plaza, around the time
of the Kennedy Assassination. So if only one of
the fired US Attorneys.s were investigating this angle, so naturally they had to. . .One of the
many problems with this theory, is that this
prominent a ‘mechanic’ wouldn’t be used to hit
a federal judge, However, Judge Wood’s replacement
was Judge William Sessions, who more than a decade
later, became the FBI director. . .
A hamster on steroids.
And even if he does hit number 756 this year, Hank AAron will still be the homerun king. As far as I am concerned.
A normal42 person’s forehead doesn’t look like a buttcheek.