It’d be interesting to meet someone who’s able to find a complete balance between the two though…and kind of scary.

I work with the web marketing, not any volunteer work overseas. Care2 mainly tries to fund various causes using some sort of ecard system. The petition segment of their site is fairly new.

Mongolia sounds pretty exciting. I’ve heard of people often going with church groups to help build homes, but they never go quite that far away.

Agree with you that “both “thinking” and “feeling” can be taken to the extreme.”

What do you do at Care2.com? A very interesting site with over 10 million members! Reminds me of an old friend now. She’s a member and has gone to Mongolia to do some volunteer work.

There’s this article in the New York Times called The Moral Instinct that you might find really interesting. It talks about how people respond differently to moral situations that are, logically, extremely similar. For instance, people were more calculating in situations where they were removed from the problem (pulling a switch), but more “feeling” in situations where they were directly involved (manhandling an innocent man off a bridge to stop a train.)

XD I guess it sounds a bit scrambled when I’m trying to explain it. But the article also mentioned that people with damaged frontal lobes have a lot of difficulty in making “basic moral decisions.” The example that the article used was that they couldn’t figure out if they should steal a vaccine from a hospital in order to save their wife’s life.

Anyways, the article cites a couple scientific studies that have been done on all of this.

I’m naturally a kind of irritable person, very likely to vehemently sign an online petition in a fit of rage, so I feel like adding elements of “thinking” to elements of “feeling” can help me be more compassionate and understanding.