"Everybody knows that sometimes you feel something is right, sometimes you feel something is wrong--we want to know: where does that feeling begin? Where does it come from? How old is it?--"
"Can we get started please?"
"OKAY, okay...just going on a bit..."
It's an interesting way to begin a conversation about morality--the way our brains weigh decisions and grapple with what's wrong and right. Bypassing the easier question of friendliness and social etiquette, in the segment "Who Can You Save?", Radiolab hosts profile Mark Hauser, a Harvard scientist whose research is empirically plunging into the question of how humans differentiate between right and wrong.
Complete with hypothetical situations, public commentary, and vetted scientific studies, this segment explores the possibility that morality is, in fact, not a product of our social conditioning, but of our biological wiring.
Not sure I agree with Hauser's conclusion, but it does shed an interesting light on the mysterious origin of humanity's collective conscience. A conscience that, at times, is just as paradoxical as the people speculating about it.
But if that doesn't interest you, the chick's laugh at 8:56 is hilarious. I about died; it was so cute :)
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