(November 28, 2014 at 6:09 pm)Exian Wrote: I might be way off base here, but I see a parallel with "even though we evolved to be social, moral creatures, we 'should' be able to override that special gut feeling using our intelligence" and "we can intellectually choose our sexual orientation despite our natural feelings". The issue is probably even similarly split.
Interesting comparison. There are a few similarities and it might be the case, like people can't choose not to be gay, they also can't choose not to be moral.
The way I have been thinking of it is almost like an irrational fear. For example, someone might be scared of spiders. Even though they 'know' a particular spider can't hurt them at all they are still scared to go over to pick it up. Similarly, to do something immoral, even though they know nothing will happen, people just can't do it in the same way (not that they should).
