Morality: Good vs Evil

Both, Moral Insticts and Why Can't We All Get Along?, have situational awareness as an emphasis as well as logical and emotional thinking. With this in mind, an individual's intentions affects the goodness or evilness when it is perceived. A persons morality deeply impacts daily routines and even critical moments. Joshua Greene's study has a scientific approach in discovering what influences an individuals decisions, actions, and over all morals. Depending on which parts of the individual's brain is being stimulated, can either make a solid logical approach or a more sensitive emotional approach. Does a sympathetic neurological reaction result in a better or worse outcome than a systematic one? Well, Greene explained that the outcome is ultimately the same, but the only real difference is the individual perceiving this action. In, Moral Insticts, Steven Pinker starts off with an example of most admirable and least admirable celebrity or successful person. Mother Tereasa was the most common answer for most admirable because of her caring and giving acts, and accomplishments. Bill Gates on the other had unfortunately been the victim of being most unadmirable. Which begs the question, Why? Both individuals accomplished great things that have advanced the world, whether that be technologically or as a community or country. Both impacted the culture of the United States and even touched other countries. Joshua Greene, Why Can't We All Get Along, summarized this the best, by explaining how "Moral Dumbfounding" can complicate our reasoning. If it feels right to say someone is more admirable because their achievements are more caring and kind when compared to another's achievements then there lays the real problem. The self awareness that Greene and Pinker mention is to help lift the veil from over the eyes of most people. Appreciation of all acts, whether the intentions were positive or negative, has helped everyone evolve over time. If history is ignored then history is destined to repeat itself.