Understanding how serotonin modulates moral behavior thus requires precise behavioral tools for measuring aspects of moral behavior, combined with targeted pharmacological tools for manipulating serotonin in the brain.
Even if a consensus would exist on the mechanisms of morality and how to achieve more moral behavior, several authors question whether it is enough for any moral bioenhancement intervention to have effect on behavior, but not necessarily on other aspects of morality, such as moral reasoning, moral insight, or moral will.
In any case, he does not appear to take himself to be primarily addressing a genuine moral skeptic such as those who often populate the works of moral philosophers, that is, someone who needs a reason to act morally and whose moral behavior hinges on a rational proof that philosophers might try to give.
Then come the rules on "moral behavior".
Holbrooke hitched a ruthless pragmatism to a genuine moral imagination.
There are plot twists, murder, infidelity, and genuine moral resolution.
Those with a genuine moral objection to assisted suicide need not participate.
But wasn't Amos demanding universal moral behavior?
Lewis's detachment could not disguise a genuine moral commitment to his causes.
Moral hazard, the risk one party incurs when dependent on the moral behavior of others.
But it has the sinew of a really good procedural, underpinned by genuine moral outrage.
