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Your Moral Compass Is Reversible
scibri writes "Your moral positions may be more flexible than you think. Researchers in Sweden have tricked people into reversing their opinions on moral issues, even to the point of constructing good arguments to support the opposite of their original positions (paper in PLOS ONE). They used a 'magic trick' to reverse a person's responses to such moral issues as 'Large-scale governmental surveillance of e-mail and Internet traffic ought to be forbidden as a means to combat international crime and terrorism,' by switching 'forbidden' to 'permitted' when the subject turned the page of the questionaire. When asked to read back the questions and answers, about half of the subjects did not detect the changes, and a full 53% of participants argued unequivocally for the opposite of their original attitude in at least one of the manipulated statements."
A phenomenon previously only shown when people signed up as a Republican.
Do you support baby eating?
Human being: NO!
Republican: Only if they are babies who totally depend on other people to sustain them!
Mind you, a republican could never have his moral compass reversed. You cannot reverse that which does not exist. Republican Schwarzenegger attempted to show that Republican do however have a heart after he needed a pacemaker. Indeed, it showed that Republican do have a heart. A diseased organ that can only be kept functioning through the repeated application of electric shocks. Not sure what he tried to proof? That cattle prods should be used on Republicans?
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