It’s OK if she’s not dead (Image: Brad Wenner/Flickr/Getty)
IS IT more morally acceptable to kill someone accidentally, or intend to kill them but fail? Most people would go for the first option – unless their brains are impaired in regions key to feeling emotion or divining the intentions of others.
This discovery is helping to unravel how we make moral judgements and has implications for people’s fitness to serve as jurors or judges.
To probe emotion’s role in moral decision-making, and her colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turned to nine people whose emotional responses…
