Share 'Sila and Emotions'

Buddhist theory often focuses on the negative impact of emotions, but in this excerpt from his book How We Decide (which I found through delanceyplace.com), Jonah Lehrer points out that positive moral decisions have everything to do with our emotional systems, and little or nothing to do with reason. Read on: "Psychopaths shed light on a crucial subset of decision-making that's referred to as mo…