(July 10, 2013 at 12:39 am)simplexity Wrote: We are answering to/inferring instructions(it contains instructions) from the moral sense data in this manner:
1)We are self aware
2)Self aware beings do not wish to suffer
3)We also suffer if anything else suffers
3)Because we do not wish to suffer anything which causes suffering is immoral, and this is the starting point for morality(belief system)
4)Not suffering is also inescapably reasonable(see above)
Just this - I do not agree that statements 2 and 3 are necessarily true. However, I do agree that these premises form the starting point of some of the existing moralities.