"Enhancing serotonin made subjects more likely to judge harmful actions as forbidden, but only in cases where harms were emotionally salient. "
"Together, these findings provide unique evidence that serotonin could promote prosocial behavior by enhancing harm aversion, "
I object to the notion that 'less harm' is necessarily 'pro social'.
You can see the emotional attachment to 'harm' which confirms my biases in that people have difficulty mapping the moral issues with harm against their emotional reaction.
Case and point: A man robs a bank, is running from police, shooting at them, the police shoot the man, he dies.
I believe the 'seratonin' response is to condemn the 'terrible harm' done by the police officers.
It takes second order rationalization to contextualize the situation.
"Together, these findings provide unique evidence that serotonin could promote prosocial behavior by enhancing harm aversion, "
I object to the notion that 'less harm' is necessarily 'pro social'.
You can see the emotional attachment to 'harm' which confirms my biases in that people have difficulty mapping the moral issues with harm against their emotional reaction.
Case and point: A man robs a bank, is running from police, shooting at them, the police shoot the man, he dies.
I believe the 'seratonin' response is to condemn the 'terrible harm' done by the police officers.
It takes second order rationalization to contextualize the situation.