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Nearly everybody cheats, but usually only a little. That is one of the themes in Dan Ariely’s new book "The(Honest)Truth About D
Nearly everybody cheats, but usually only a little. That is one of the themes in Dan Ariely’s new book "The(Honest)Truth About D
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Nearly everybody cheats, but usually only a little. That is one of the themes in Dan Ariely’s new book "The(Honest)Truth About Dishonesty". Most of us think we are pretty wonderful. We can cheat a little and still keep that "good person" identity.
Ariely, who is one of the most creative social scientists on the planet, had one blind colleague and one sighted colleague take taxi rides. The drivers cheated the sighted colleague by taking long routes much more often than they cheated the blind one, even though she would have been easier to mislead. They would have felt guilty cheating a blind woman. Ariely points out that we are driven by morality much more than standard economic models allow. But I was struck by what you might call the Good Person Construct and the moral calculus it implies. For the past several centuries, most Westerners would have identified themselves fundamentally as Depraved Sinners. In this construct, sin is something you fight like a recurring cancer — part of a daily battle against evil.
But these days, people are more likely to believe in their essential goodness. People who live by the Good Person Construct try to balance their virtuous self-image with their selfish desires. They try to manage the moral plusses and minuses and keep their overall record in positive territory. In this construct, moral life is more like dieting: the Good Person isn’t shooting for perfection any more than most dieters are following their diet 100 percent. It’s enough to be workably suboptimal and a generally good guy.
Obviously, though, there’s a measurement problem. You can buy a weight scale to get an objective measure of your diet. But you can’t buy a scale of virtues to put on the bathroom floor. And given our awesome capacities for rationalization and self-deception, most of us are going to measure ourselves
leniently
: I was honest with that blind passenger because I’m a wonderful person. I cheated the sighted one because she probably has too much money anyway.
The key job in the Good Person Construct is to manage your rationalizations and self-deceptions to keep them from getting conspicuous. Ariely suggests you reset your moral gauge from time to time. Your moral standards will gradually slip as you become more and more comfortable with your own rationalizations.
I’d add that you really shouldn’t shoot for goodness, which is so vague and forgiving. You should shoot for rectitude. We’re mostly unqualified to judge our own moral performances, so attach yourself to some exterior or social standards. And as we go about doing our Good Person moral calculations, it might be worth asking: Is this good enough?
Western traditional culture maintained that human nature is______.
选项
A、inherently good
B、subject to exterior influence
C、genetically determined
D、originally evil
答案
D
解析
根据题干中的关键词“传统”和“人性”定位到文章第二段末;“在过去的几百年间,大部分的西方人将自己认定为堕落的罪人”,在这种理念下,与罪恶相抗争成为人们每日与自身邪恶相较量的一部分。因此[D]选项正确。
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