(April 5, 2019 at 11:38 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: I accept that you view morality through the lens of what you find aesthetically pleasing. I specifically laid out both that and how I'm human just like you and that subjectivity is just as much a part of who I am as it is who you are.
I just don’t elevate that to the status of my moral framework.
That’s because you’re delusiona, and try to imagine yourself as something other than the biological creature you are, as a man living outside his body. You lack the basic self awareness needed to recognize the nonsense even from purely atheistic perspective regarding your moral views.
Quote: My moral proactive behavior is very much connected to my moral reasoning.
No it isn’t. A variety of studies have shown that there’s no real relationship between these two have been found. That what you call moral reasoning, is primarily a justification after the fact. The reason why you and I jumped in front of bullet for our wives, gf, children, mother, etc… isn’t because you relied on your unique moral reasoning to compel you to do it, and I instead did so because I was compelled by love. But rather we did so based on similar underlying motivations.
“It has been hard to find any correlation between moral reasoning and proactive moral behavior, such as helping other people. In fact, in most recent studies, none has been found…As one might predict based on what we have learned so far, moral behavior, as evidenced by helping others, is more correlated with emotion and self- control.”
“The proposal is that a stimulus induces an automatic process of approval (approach) or disapproval (avoid), which may lead to a full-on emotional state. The emotional state produces a moral intuition that may motivate an individual to action. Reasoning about the judgment or action comes afterward, as the brain seeks a rational explanation for an automatic re- action it has no clue about. This includes moral judgments, which are not often the result of actual moral reasoning.” - Michael Gazzaniga
Quote:It's highly unlikely that you and I have uniformly equivalent aesthetic tastes, but if you want to agree with me that the good can be ugly, then so be it it?
When it comes to morality, particularly core morality, it is highly likely. It been shown that our brains react quite similarly to variety of moral scenarios across cultures, and societies.