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You make a great point. If morality is a high-level behavior, which is seems to be, then it should be fairly easy to disrupt. Just monkey with any of the several moving parts that combine to create the emergent property of 'morality', and the emergence shouldn't happen, at least not in the same way.

It's not astonishing, it's to be expected.

I don't think "morality" is equivalent to "processor".

In his example, morality is WoW, and the analogy is sound. By disrupting the low level activity, you prevent high level processes from emerging.

Try to degauss your cell phone, just to see what happens...

Mmm. The CPU is the whole brain, and WoW is the totality of human behavior; so a more correct analogy would be: "I disabled the arithmetic co-processor and look, this character behaves erratically -- while the rest of the game seems unaffected".