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Simply telling people that their opinions are based on morality will make them stronger and more resistant to counterarguments, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that people were more likely to act on an opinion - what psychologists call an attitude - if it was labeled as moral and were more resistant to attempts to change their mind on that subject.
The results show why appeals to morality by politicians and advocacy groups can be so effective, said Andrew Luttrell, lead author of the study and a doctoral student in psychology at The Ohio State University.
"The perception that an attitude we hold is based on morality is enough to strengthen it," Luttrell said.
"For many people, morality implies a universality, an ultimate truth. It is a conviction that is not easily changed."
The key finding was how easy it was to strengthen people's beliefs by using the 'moral' label, said Richard Petty, co-author of the study and professor of psychology at Ohio State.
"Morality can act as a trigger - you can attach the label to nearly any belief and instantly make that belief stronger," Petty said.
Always preface your comments with, "The Lord sayeth..."
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday June 02 2016, @11:29PM
> does not seem to really care about us
getting crucified, a clever way to not really care.
The problem with modern atheists is that, even starting from the hypothesis that there is no god, your arguments are still baseless. Any idiot can disprove an incomplete version of a theorem like you attack a specially crafted "god does not care" religion, and a specially crafted reality where acts against religion have not caused many, many more deaths than the old testament God. Oh but maybe you were talking about satan the character, the one who is behind every death of any descendant of mr. Adam the First having given him the possibility of committing sin? You are a funny guy.
(As an aside, believers say, like, "knowing good and evil means being responsible, able to sin, and ultimately, able to be judged and condemned from that sin. Animals driven by instinct are not responsible. The Genesis story is symbolism about this simple fact" and all you atheists can say about it is "OH BUT THEY ONLY ATE AN APPLE HOW VENGEFUL IS THAT GOD FOR DISOBEYING A PETTY ORDER". Which is pathetic?).
As for the objection I try to infer from your post, starting from the opposite 'there is a god' POV:
1. a god can do whatever, you are not able to judge it because you do not know the ultimate effect of his actions.
Try and disprove "any interaction which we interpret as casual is directly operated by GOD ALMIGHTY with the objective of obtaining the ultimately best possible outcome for the Creation". If you can't disprove the preposterous proposition above, how can you judge any single act? But this is a logic trick, let's see the bigger picture.
2. the previous applies to satan, except that by not being a dual entity but a creature, so his authority is limited to what he can get away with, just like us. It is a fundamental distinction. God is like a programmer who writes code and executes it in his head. Your objection is like saying the programmer cannot remove a piece of code from his "act".
3. acts of men proclaiming to do god's will are obviously not justified by 1. and 2., plus, being less able to talk to God as Satan is able to, you can prove what god's will is, in fact asserting that a god *needs* man to do things should get people struck by lightning with nobody being surprised about it.
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(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Saturday June 04 2016, @05:10AM
lol
just 'lol
you guys beieve quite silly things with zero proof.
save me the wall of text or gish gallop, m'kay?
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday June 04 2016, @10:56PM
Proof of god is the silly concept, m'lord.
Since you might be tempted of theorizing one, I suggest to start with simpler things.
For example you design an AI in a virtual world, the AI gets self aware, how do you show yourself and prove you live beyond the virtual world without AI having to BELIEVE that those pixels making up your avatar are not just part of the virtual world, a prank, or a more powerful AI?
But of course you would be content with a miracle, like all the others.
Miracles unfortunately cannot tell the hypothetical god from a sufficiently resourceful creature. High scientific knowledge, high tech, mind control, and so on. So, back to square one.
In fact when strange things happen to more than one person, the position of those who choose not to believe is "collective hallucination". Not very scientific, but still an equivalent position of a believer.
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