Questions tagged [morality]
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Was the experiment with five monkeys, a ladder, a banana and a water spray conducted?
I've found the following picture online. It is about the moral/paradigm behind consistent behavior.
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The image text says
A group of scientists placed 5 monkeys in a cage and in the middle, a ladder with bananas on the top.
Every…
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Are atheists strongly underrepresented in US prison communities?
This popularly referenced survey gives statistics about the number of atheists in US prisons.
It suggests just 0.21% of the prison population is atheist. There are more scientologists! This is surprising because atheists represent about 15% of the…
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Are humans the only animals that kill for pleasure or no purpose?
“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the
torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
James Anthony Froude (British historian, 1818-1894)
Is this statement factually correct? Have there been any…
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