Imagine a world in which each country comes with a unique set of moral codes, where each of them has distinct preferences for punishing or allowing different behaviors. In such a world, creating ...

Ugh, I hate ethical questions like this, because they always describe situations that would never happen in real life without a million other conditions that no ethical test could ever account for.

As The Economist recently wrote, a forthcoming paper in Cognition reports that experiment participants "who indicated greater endorsement of utilitarian solutions had higher scores on measures of ...

Human beings are notorious for constructing divisions; we divide ourselves into nations, parties, families … even the most basic elements of computers are a division between ones and zeros. Dividing, ...

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