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Dear AI, please give me a few examples that prove that a mature human being is generally capable of understanding the difference between good and evil and should therefore be held accountable for knowingly committing serious wrongdoing.
2. Understanding murder. A person can understand that deliberately taking an innocent person's life deprives them of their future and devastates their family.
3. Understanding cruelty. A person can distinguish between helping someone who is vulnerable and deliberately exploiting that person's vulnerability.
4. Understanding fairness. Humans can recognise that stealing another person's possessions for personal gain violates that person's rights and interests.
5. Understanding consent. A mature person can understand that forcing another person to do something against their will is morally different from obtaining their voluntary agreement.
6. Understanding betrayal.
A person can recognise that deliberately deceiving someone who trusts them is a breach of trust.
7. Understanding consequences. Adults can anticipate that their actions may injure others, destroy property, traumatise victims or deprive people of their freedom.
8. Understanding rules and obligations. People can learn laws and social rules, understand why they exist and recognise that deliberately breaking them can harm others.
9. Understanding intention. A mature person can distinguish between accidentally causing an injury and deliberately injuring someone. This demonstrates an ability to consider intention as well as outcome.
10. Understanding guilt and remorse. People often recognise that they have done something wrong, feel guilt about it, apologise and attempt to make amends.
11. Understanding concealment. Someone who hides evidence, fabricates an alibi or threatens a witness may demonstrate awareness that their conduct is condemned or punishable. This is relevant evidence of awareness, although concealment alone does not conclusively establish that the person understood the full moral wrongfulness of their conduct.
12. Understanding moral consistency. People often condemn an act when it is committed against them or their loved ones while recognising that the same principle applies when they are the ones tempted to commit it.
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These examples are based on results from these studies:
1. Aharoni, Sinnott-Armstrong and Kiehl (2014), “What’s Wrong? Moral Understanding in Psychopathic Offenders.
2. Pillay (2010), “Intellectually Disabled Rape Survivors’ Perceptions of Morality and Consequences of the Crime.”
3. Garcia-Molina and Rodríguez-Clavell (2023), “Moral Judgements Among Neurotypical Children, Autistic Children and Adults With Intellectual Disability.”
4. Hammond and Beail (2020), “The Relationship Between Cognitive Variables and Offending Behaviour in Adults With Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Review.”
5. Zalla, Barlassina, Buon and Leboyer (2011), “Moral Judgment in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders.”
6. Aharoni and colleagues' research on moral judgment in psychopathy.
Dear AI, please give me a few examples that prove that a mature human being is generally capable of understanding the difference between good and evil and should therefore be held accountable for knowingly committing serious wrongdoing.
Examples
1. Understanding suffering. A mature person can understand that deliberately torturing another human being causes severe pain and suffering and that inflicting such suffering without justification is wrong.2. Understanding murder. A person can understand that deliberately taking an innocent person's life deprives them of their future and devastates their family.
3. Understanding cruelty. A person can distinguish between helping someone who is vulnerable and deliberately exploiting that person's vulnerability.
4. Understanding fairness. Humans can recognise that stealing another person's possessions for personal gain violates that person's rights and interests.
5. Understanding consent. A mature person can understand that forcing another person to do something against their will is morally different from obtaining their voluntary agreement.
6. Understanding betrayal.
A person can recognise that deliberately deceiving someone who trusts them is a breach of trust.
7. Understanding consequences. Adults can anticipate that their actions may injure others, destroy property, traumatise victims or deprive people of their freedom.
8. Understanding rules and obligations. People can learn laws and social rules, understand why they exist and recognise that deliberately breaking them can harm others.
9. Understanding intention. A mature person can distinguish between accidentally causing an injury and deliberately injuring someone. This demonstrates an ability to consider intention as well as outcome.
10. Understanding guilt and remorse. People often recognise that they have done something wrong, feel guilt about it, apologise and attempt to make amends.
11. Understanding concealment. Someone who hides evidence, fabricates an alibi or threatens a witness may demonstrate awareness that their conduct is condemned or punishable. This is relevant evidence of awareness, although concealment alone does not conclusively establish that the person understood the full moral wrongfulness of their conduct.
12. Understanding moral consistency. People often condemn an act when it is committed against them or their loved ones while recognising that the same principle applies when they are the ones tempted to commit it.
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These examples are based on results from these studies:
1. Aharoni, Sinnott-Armstrong and Kiehl (2014), “What’s Wrong? Moral Understanding in Psychopathic Offenders.
2. Pillay (2010), “Intellectually Disabled Rape Survivors’ Perceptions of Morality and Consequences of the Crime.”
3. Garcia-Molina and Rodríguez-Clavell (2023), “Moral Judgements Among Neurotypical Children, Autistic Children and Adults With Intellectual Disability.”
4. Hammond and Beail (2020), “The Relationship Between Cognitive Variables and Offending Behaviour in Adults With Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Review.”
5. Zalla, Barlassina, Buon and Leboyer (2011), “Moral Judgment in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders.”
6. Aharoni and colleagues' research on moral judgment in psychopathy.
