A new study suggests that, while atheists and theists share moral values related to protecting vulnerable individuals, atheists are less likely to endorse values that promote group cohesion and more inclined to judge the morality of actions based on their consequences. Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210224143306.htm
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The Book of Malachi is darkly unmissable science fiction
The Book of Malachi by T. C. Farren centres on a young man whose tongue has been cut out during a brutal civil war. It’s a tough, mind-bending morality tale Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833040-800-the-book-of-malachi-is-darkly-unmissable-science-fiction/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Freeman Dyson, Visionary Technologist, Is Dead at 96
darenw shares a report: Freeman J. Dyson, a mathematical prodigy who left his mark on subatomic physics before turning to messier subjects like Earth’s environmental future and the morality of war, died on Friday at a hospital near Princeton, N.J. He was 96. His daughter Mia Dyson confirmed the death. As a young graduate student at Cornell in 1949, Dr. Dyson…
Death Stranding makes me rethink the morality of the gig economy
Playing Death Stranding, a new game set in a post-apocalypse US, helps me understand how it feels to be a gig worker dependent on good user ratings, says Jacob Aron in his latest column Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432600-500-death-stranding-makes-me-rethink-the-morality-of-the-gig-economy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
When robots are ultra-lifelike will it be murder to switch one off?
Sentient machines with empathy and morality are coming. We urgently need to make some life-and-death decisions about their rights Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2223763-when-robots-are-ultra-lifelike-will-it-be-murder-to-switch-one-off/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
The Farewell explores the ethics of lying about a cancer diagnosis
Lulu Wang’s moving film The Farewell explores the morality of hiding the truth from a loved one who has been diagnosed with cancer Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2221673-the-farewell-explores-the-ethics-of-lying-about-a-cancer-diagnosis/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral
Our survival instinct should undercut morality – but our mammalian brains pulled off an amazing evolutionary trick, says neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332490-800-deliver-us-from-evil-how-biology-not-religion-made-humans-moral/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…