Morally-motivated decision making has recently emerged as an especially relevant domain of study for understanding cultural conflict. Baron and Spranca (1997) have proposed that people hold protected values that are protected against being traded off for other goods. One of the most characteristic properties of protected values is quantity insensitivity, meaning that holders of these values are...

Are acts of violence performed in virtual environments ever morally wrong, even when no other persons are affected? While some such surely reflect deficient moral character, I focus on the rightness or wrongness acts. Typically it’s thought that, Kant’s theory, an act is wrong (i.e., violates Categorical Imperative) only if mistreats another person. But argue can be their avatars affected. Firs...

An influential model of democratic civil-military relations insists that civilian politicians and officials, accountable to the public, have “the right be wrong” about use force: they, not senior military officers, decide when force will used set strategy. While polls routinely asked Americans’ trust in military, they rarely probed deeply into views relations. We report analyze results a June 2...

As stakeholders struggle to reconcile calls for accountability and pressures for increased patient safety, criminal prosecution of surgeons and other health-care workers for medical error seems to be on the rise. This paper examines whether legal systems can meaningfully draw a line between acceptable performance and negligence. By questioning essentialist assumptions behind 'crime' or 'neglige...