What can we learn from those who have a moral change of heart?

Stories of sharp adjustments in moral perspective show the potential of unusual experiences to open people’s minds. ‘Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!’ Those were the infamous words of George Wallace, the newly elected governor of Alabama, in 1963. Yet this man – described by Martin Luther King Jr as ‘perhaps the most dangerous racist in America’ – eventually had a change of heart. There were many factors at play, but one event seemed to trigger Wallace’s moral metamorphosis. ….[READ]