This quote implies a connection from “people react less strongly to emotional expressions in a foreign language” to “dilemmas in a foreign language don’t touch the very core of our moral being”. Furthermore, it connects or equates being more willing to sacrifice one person for five and “touch[ing] the core of our moral being” less. All rational people should object to the first implication, and most should object to the second one. This is a profoundly anti-rational quote, not a rationality quote.
I think you’re reading a lot into that one sentence. I assumed that just to mean “there should not be inconsistencies due to irrelevant aspects like the language of delivery”. Followed by a sound explanation for the unexpected inconsistency in terms of system 1 / system 2 thinking.
(The final paragraph of the article begins with “Our research does not show which choice is the right one.”)
What do we suppose is meant by ‘the very core of our moral being’? If people react differently depending on language, isn’t that evidence that there is a connection? Or at least that the moral core is doing something different?
This quote implies a connection from “people react less strongly to emotional expressions in a foreign language” to “dilemmas in a foreign language don’t touch the very core of our moral being”. Furthermore, it connects or equates being more willing to sacrifice one person for five and “touch[ing] the core of our moral being” less. All rational people should object to the first implication, and most should object to the second one. This is a profoundly anti-rational quote, not a rationality quote.
I think you’re reading a lot into that one sentence. I assumed that just to mean “there should not be inconsistencies due to irrelevant aspects like the language of delivery”. Followed by a sound explanation for the unexpected inconsistency in terms of system 1 / system 2 thinking.
(The final paragraph of the article begins with “Our research does not show which choice is the right one.”)
What do we suppose is meant by ‘the very core of our moral being’? If people react differently depending on language, isn’t that evidence that there is a connection? Or at least that the moral core is doing something different?