What does morality mean to you?

[Pyrrho]

I agree with your point about being drunk, and indeed willfully ignorant. If you have knowingly put yourself in a situation where you are impaired but required to make important decisions, then that adds immorality.

What else do you think is missing?

I don't think your approach accurately characterizes what is going on with morality.  Moral behavior has been observed in animals, and so it cannot be based upon advanced reasoning.  (Also, almost every idiot human has a sense of morality, so it is not brilliance that is the source of it.)

See:

http://www.livescience.com/24802-animals...-book.html

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource...-fairness/


My own take on morality I have explained in the past:

http://atheistforums.org/thread-33164-po...#pid934918

http://atheistforums.org/thread-33164-po...#pid935583

There are more posts in that thread.

By "doing the right thing" I mean trying to maximise the wellbeing of other people/animals and reduce unnecessary harm. I should have stated that explicitly.

You are there seeming like you believe that morality is objective.

However, it is still not satisfactory, because what, precisely, is "wellbeing" and what, precisely, is "harm"?  It really just seems like alternate words for saying that doing the right thing means trying to maximize doing what is right and minimizing doing what is wrong.

If there were not already a common sense of morality, I would have no idea what you were writing about.