Moral judgment falters if rushed

At least that's my reading of the results of this research. It uses 1,0000 subjects, so that's a very reasonable sample. Read more about it here: Moral Judgment Falters As Time Crunch Sets In The final paragraph gives us the skinny: "The fact that we give greater weight to moral values further away in time has to do with how abstract we are in our thinking. When we think of temporally distant events, we think more abstractly, which makes us focus on superordinate aspects and the main purport of the event. But if we think of events that are close to us in time, we think more concretely, which means that subordinate, peripheral aspects take on more importance. For example, if we imagine that we will be asked to donate blood in the future, what dominates is the superordinate moral value of helping other people, but if the time perspective is telescoped, concrete subordinate selfish motives take over, such as the fact that it will be unpleasant to be stuck by a needle."
This has very important consequences. It means that decision-making processes requiring a change of behaviour in the light of moral or ethical considerations really need to be given good time and a long tail. Churche councils take note! Indeed governments too; I'm thinking climate-change and global economic restructuring here ...

On a personal level; it probably means too that the encouraging of personal rules of life gains a further argument for refashioning (forming) people in the way of Christ: the long-term horizon is vital and important in affecting thinking now and in helping us to avoid short-time ethically sub-optimal behaviours. It also seems to me to suggest support for the idea of sabbath: taking the pressure off helps to form good thinking and behaviours, if I read the results aright.