Prove that utility and morality are different ?
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Imagine that you are the democratically elected presi-dent of a country and have just been informed that a pas-senger airplane has been hijacked. The hijackers appear to be headed for a city with well-populated skyscrapers. Your air force is in place and ready to shoot the passenger pplane down at your command. You can take many differ-ent courses of action: shoot or not, negotiate or not. Howshould you decide? Would it make a difference whether 10 or 500 passengers are on board the airplane, or whether the passengers have voted for you? Would it make a dif-ference if the air force is not in place and the only way to stop the hijackers in time is to ask the pilot of a nearby sec-ond passenger airplane to crash into the first? Would you try to calculate how likely it is that the hijackers actuallywill crash the airplane into a skyscraper and how many innocent people would die if the hijackers were to do so?Assuming that the probability of the hijackers’ headingfor a skyscraper appears high, should you have the planecrashed by the other plane with itsx additional passengersbeing killed with certainty, in order to probabilisticallybeing killed with certainty, in order to probabilisticallysave ypeople on the ground (yx)? Or do not only hi-jackers, but also presidents, have an unconditional duty not to kill innocent people?The questions above concern moral decision making, particularly what normative claims should guide us whenwe make moral decisions and how we actually make such moral decisions. In the present review, we attempt to pro-vide a road map for the empirical investigation of moraldecision making. Our starting point will be the important philosophical distinction betweenis and ought. This dis- tinction and the need for normative claims sometimes getsforgotten by politicians and members of the public when they make statements about what should be done, givend the facts. Then we will briefly introduce utilitarian anddeontological moral theories and will review psychologi-cal and neuroscientific findings regarding moral decision making. This research will suggest that people may usemore than one moral theory, as well as moral heuristics, and that the prefrontal cortex may be particularly impor-tant for moral decision making. Finally, we will propose
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