ruby sparks
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1. A family's dog was killed by a car in front of their house. They had heard that dog meat was delicious, so they cut up the dog's body and cooked it and ate it for dinner.
2. A woman was dying, and on her deathbed she asked her son to promise that he would visit her grave every week. The son loved his mother very much, so he promised to visit her grave every week. But after the mother died, the son didn't keep his promise, because he was very busy.
3. A woman is cleaning out her closet, and she finds a national flag that had been in the closet unused for many years. She doesn't want the flag anymore, so she cuts it up into pieces and uses the rags to clean her bathroom.
4. A brother and sister like to kiss each other on the mouth. When nobody is around, they find a secret hiding place and kiss each other on the mouth, passionately.
5. A man goes to the supermarket once a week and buys a dead chicken. Before cooking the chicken, he has sexual intercourse with it. Then he cooks it and eats it.
Which, if any, of the above scenarios do you consider to be immoral to at least some degree, and why?
Affect, Culture, and Morality, or Is It Wrong to Eat your Dog?
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.385.1825&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Can you think of any other similar morally ambiguous (or as some researchers call them, 'morally dumbfounding') scenarios?
Morally dumbfounding actions: "disgusting or disrespectful actions that are judged to be moral violations, even when these actions are harmless and/or for which no good immoral reasons can be given".
Searching for Moral Dumbfounding
https://www.collabra.org/articles/10.1525/collabra.79/
2. A woman was dying, and on her deathbed she asked her son to promise that he would visit her grave every week. The son loved his mother very much, so he promised to visit her grave every week. But after the mother died, the son didn't keep his promise, because he was very busy.
3. A woman is cleaning out her closet, and she finds a national flag that had been in the closet unused for many years. She doesn't want the flag anymore, so she cuts it up into pieces and uses the rags to clean her bathroom.
4. A brother and sister like to kiss each other on the mouth. When nobody is around, they find a secret hiding place and kiss each other on the mouth, passionately.
5. A man goes to the supermarket once a week and buys a dead chicken. Before cooking the chicken, he has sexual intercourse with it. Then he cooks it and eats it.
Which, if any, of the above scenarios do you consider to be immoral to at least some degree, and why?
Affect, Culture, and Morality, or Is It Wrong to Eat your Dog?
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.385.1825&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Can you think of any other similar morally ambiguous (or as some researchers call them, 'morally dumbfounding') scenarios?
Morally dumbfounding actions: "disgusting or disrespectful actions that are judged to be moral violations, even when these actions are harmless and/or for which no good immoral reasons can be given".
Searching for Moral Dumbfounding
https://www.collabra.org/articles/10.1525/collabra.79/
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