In my Dissertation I am linking recent findings in neuroscientific moral
psychology to Constellations. The former is digital and quantitative, while
Constellations are analog and qualitative. In this sense, there is no
comparing them. However, the findings seem compatible.
With that as an introduction, I have a research assignment for you. Here is
the moral dilemma of the crying baby based on an event from the Korean War:
It is wartime, and you and some of your fellow villagers are hiding from
enemy soldiers in a basement. Your baby starts to cry, and you cover your
baby's mouth to block the sound. If you remove your hand, your baby will cry
loudly, the soldiers will hear, and they will find you and the others and
kill everyone they find, including you and your baby. If you do not remove
your hand, your baby will smother to death. Is it okay to smother your baby
to death in order to save yourself and the other villagers?
The question posed in the research study is, "What would you do?" But I
pose a different question.
Imagine you set up the issue in a Constellation. You ask the representative
for the baby, "How do you feel about sacrificing your life so your mother
and the others can live?" How does the baby respond?
Please indulge me, if this all seems forced and phony. I have my idea of
the answer, and am trying to collaborate it, so it is not only my own
conjecture. Thanks.
To protect the integrity of the answers please respond to
Dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Thanks.
Dan
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