ClydeR
09-16-2016, 08:55 AM
Want another reason to stop immigration? Here's a reason. Two separate studies confirm that people who speak two languages are more "morally questionable" than people who speak just one language. It's been scientifically proven and confirmed. Let's put a stop to it while there's still time.
You’ve probably heard of that classic philosophical conundrum known as the trolley problem: A trolley is speeding toward a group of five people stuck on the track. You happen to be next to a lever that could change the trolley’s direction, sending it onto a track where one person is standing; that one person would die, but five would be saved. Would you do it? What about if that one person isn’t actually standing on the track, but actively pushing them in front of the trolley will save the other five?
Your answer, as it turns out, may depend on the language in which you hear the question: In Scientific American this week, linguist and psychologist Julie Sedivy highlighted recent research illustrating how language can shape a person’s sense of morality.
More... (http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/09/thinking-in-a-second-language-makes-you-less-moral.html?mid=twitter_scienceofus)
You’ve probably heard of that classic philosophical conundrum known as the trolley problem: A trolley is speeding toward a group of five people stuck on the track. You happen to be next to a lever that could change the trolley’s direction, sending it onto a track where one person is standing; that one person would die, but five would be saved. Would you do it? What about if that one person isn’t actually standing on the track, but actively pushing them in front of the trolley will save the other five?
Your answer, as it turns out, may depend on the language in which you hear the question: In Scientific American this week, linguist and psychologist Julie Sedivy highlighted recent research illustrating how language can shape a person’s sense of morality.
More... (http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/09/thinking-in-a-second-language-makes-you-less-moral.html?mid=twitter_scienceofus)