Some moral acts matter more than others, study shows:

Researchers found a surprising finding […]. Even when participants were mentally overloaded—trying to remember long number sequences while judging others—their reactions to fairness and property violations stayed strong.

“This suggests these judgments are automatic and intuitive, not the result of slow, careful thinking,” noted Ybarra, professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

From a study done that shows that morality matters in forming opinions of others, some moral acts matter more than others and that for humans (and for other species) some sense of fairness and morality is hardwired.

I wonder if there’s any thought to how “tribalism” overrides this trait…