“Dr Bartels and Dr Pizarro then correlated the results from the trolleyology [studying ethics using contrived life-or-death scenarios] with those from the personality tests. They found a strong link between utilitarian answers to moral dilemmas… and personalities that were psychopathic, Machiavellian or tended to view life as meaningless. Utilitarians, this suggests, may add to the sum of human happiness, but they are not very happy people themselves.”
The Economist, Moral philosophy: Goodness has nothing to do with it
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