First Wednesday Lab Hauser Article

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/05.03/15-hauser.html

Please answer the following questions after reading the above article:
Discussion Points

1. According to the article, what are the three types of cooperation in the evolution of
moral sense?

2. Of the three types of cooperation, why do you think the rarest is reciprocity? Please
explain your answer thoughtfully.

3. In the first example with the runaway trolley, do you think it is morally permissible to
flip the switch? Why or why not?

4. In the second example with one healthy person, do you think it is morally permissible
to kill the person so that doctors can harvest his organs and transplant them into five
sick persons who would otherwise die? Why or why not?

5. According to the article, what are the three principles that our moral grammar is
based on?

6. In the article, there is mention of a famous essay by moral philosopher Judith Davis
about a hypothetical situation in which a person wakes up connected to a famous
violinist. What does this example explain about humans? What would you do in this
situation?