According to David Benatar’s anti-natalism, the extinction of all sentient life, including that humans, is morally desirable. That claim contested in this article. The author commences by showing parallels between position and existentialist Albert Camus. He points out that, also for Camus, "death better" meant a moral sense. This followed general exposition anti-natalism. Particular attention...

Based on a series of vignette studies, DeScioli et al. (2011) proposed that omission bias, i.e., the preference for harm caused by omissions over commissions even when outcome is same, may be occurred as produces little public evidence wrongdoing. In this study, effects identified were examined using an opt-in policy organ donation in Japan. The results revealed context donating organs was not ...

Theorists attending to the epistemic condition on responsibility are divided over whether moral ignorance is ever exculpatory. While those who argue that reasonable expectation required for blameworthiness often maintain can excuse, theorists embrace a quality of will approach not sanguine about prospect excuses among morally ignorant wrongdoers. Indeed, it sometimes argued always reflects insu...

The design of current natural language-oriented robot architectures enables certain architectural components to circumvent moral reasoning capabilities. One example this is reflexive generation clarification requests as soon referential ambiguity detected in a human utterance. As shown previous research, can lead robots (1) miscommunicate their dispositions and (2) weaken perception or applicat...

Exposure to potentially morally injurious events has been shown to be associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression symptoms in military personnel. Few studies have examined factors that help to explain how potentially morally injurious events may contribute to the development of trauma-related psychopathology. Negative posttrauma cognitions are thought to play a role in t...