Twitter Will Not Morally Corrupt You

The blog at Discover Magazine confirms my suspicion about the article I mentioned earlier in the week which said Twitter could undermine your morality.

Quick! Grab the latest scientific study that may have something remotely to do with Twitter! Run it with a “Twitter Will Destroy Humanity!” headline! With a graphic by Hieronymus Bosch!

Somehow, this finding has grave implications for Twitter, since, according to Immordino-Yang:

For some kinds of thought, especially moral decision-making about other people’s social and psychological situations, we need to allow for adequate time and reflection.

Uhh, seriously? So does that mean pre-Internet humanity, with its countless hours of reflection, was also blessed with impeccable morality?

What Immordino-Yang says there may be too vague for assessment, but for some kinds of moral cognition time and reflection is not necessary, as the recent empirical moral psychology of Professor Jonathan Haidt and others has shown.