Killing which averts suffering: the role of norms and empathy

避免痛苦的杀戮：规范和同理心的作用

• 批准号: DP190100952
• 负责人: Prof Winnifred Louis
• 金额: $ 19.15万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2019-06-03 至 2022-06-24
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP190100952
• 关键词: Killing; averts; suffering; role; norms

Abattoir workers and butchers kill animals to prepare food, farmers to cull stock, and veterinarians to alleviate suffering. Soldiers kill other humans in war, police or security guards to protect the public, and doctors to enact legal euthanasia. Research shows that these tasks can be confronting, and even traumatic. This project aims to test the processes through which people learn socially supported palliative killing to avert suffering and their neural underpinnings, with a focus on norms and empathic distress. It will focus on two core samples: veterinarians, who must euthanize animals, and health practitioners in Victoria, where legal changes will introduce ‘voluntary assisted dying’ in mid-2019. It will investigate how practitioners learn palliative killing, and what the impact is on psychological variables such as empathy and identity. It will generate new understandings of social influence around life and death decisions, provide an evidence basis to inform policy makers, and help institutions and practitioners seeking to manage distress and respond to fast-moving, controversial policy changes.

屠宰场工人和屠夫宰杀动物准备食物，农民宰杀牲畜，兽医减轻痛苦。士兵在战争中杀死其他人，警察或保安人员保护公众，医生制定法律的安乐死。研究表明，这些任务可能是面对的，甚至是创伤性的。该项目旨在测试人们学习社会支持的姑息性杀戮以避免痛苦及其神经基础的过程，重点是规范和移情痛苦。它将关注两个核心样本：兽医，他们必须对动物实施安乐死，以及维多利亚的卫生从业者，那里的法律的变化将在2019年中引入“自愿协助死亡”。它将调查从业者如何学习姑息性杀戮，以及对同情和身份等心理变量的影响。它将产生对围绕生死决定的社会影响的新理解，为决策者提供证据基础，并帮助寻求管理痛苦和应对快速变化的有争议的政策变化的机构和从业人员。