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Red Light Therapy
Phillips, Adam http://harpers.org/archive/2016/05/red-light-therapy/
Publisher: Harper's
Date Written: 01/05/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
A traffic light experiment in the Netherlands forms the basis of a discussion on how we interpret 'rules' and morality and what they mean to us.
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In certain circumstances killing people is not forbidden, but killing certain people is; torture is not forbidden, but torturing certain people is; sex is not forbidden, but certain kinds of sexual activity with certain people are; and so on. Virtually no one supports incest or pedophelia, but in every other case, when it comes to forbidden -- what we musn't do, as opposed to what we shouldn't do -- there are mitigating cirumstances, good reasons found for redescribing forbidden acts as acceptable. Nearly all rules seem to be breakable.
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