Two things:
One regarding whether something is morally right or wrong. I think people determine this because of their consequences, for the most part, especially when pain is involved in the consequences of the action. Linking with the article, it said that we are born with the idea of wanting to do good things to other people. When we are faced with a situation that may cause pain to an individual (or more), we are faced with a dilemma that may put a person's life in our hands. For example, today in class, we discussed whether killing the serial killer/disabled person is the same as locking them away from society. Some regarded this as different as we would be killing "innocent people" who can't help how their brain is structured. Similarly, back to the debate about killing the 5 people in the car and the 1 person on the track. Before we knew that we would be pushing the person onto the tracks (even also before we knew there was a person standing on the tracks), people were in support of saving the 5 people. When they found out you had to push the man, people began to have doubts as they weren't sure whether they wanted to "kill" the 5 people or the individual as it involved you depriving a person of their life. Emotional consequences are shown to play a key part in whether a person makes a decision to do something or not.
SECOND, is about the discussion today as to whether we can judge the equality of everyone. What are we defining as equality because down to the bone, we're not equal. We all think differently, look differently and many more. Do we mean equality as exactly the same or....??? I'm not sure. I'm not saying that people should or shouldn't be treated equally. I'm just saying that people aren't and never will be equal. Take a look outside, in the news or in magazines. People aren't treated equally because people are living their lives differently granting them more priveleges than others. Those who give up or don't have the ability to be at top can't thrive at the top of society so aren't treated like they are the top of society. I think we can't treat people differently or else society wouldn't function. Our society, whether we like it or not, is based on a class system. People will always have the best and worst jobs and there's nothing we can do about it. People will always hold different beliefs, whether they are right or not, that cause them to treat people differently. Would you treat a newborn baby boy and a successfull corporate business man equally? Somethings sound like they are better for society when really they aren't very practical.