pug846

First time I've ever double posted. *sigh*

DRFseven

Again, I say that I feel right about something in the same way I feel happy or sad about something. Feeling right is not necessarily feeling good or happy or pleased; it's only what it is - feeling right. What causes the feeling is the action of certain neurotransmitters in the dopaminergic system, but it's not neurotransmitters I feel.

I've got a case of flu right now. Last night I was driven to get up, and with fever, chills, and cough, drive to a scary place a good distance away and prowl around by myself looking for my mother's lost cat, who got picked up by the pound and accidently released out in the boondocks, until almost midnight (no luck). What got me to do that and how did I feel when I did it? It was my own personal moral code; the one that says "I don't want my mother to feel miserable" that got me to do it. And the way I felt when I did it was that I felt I was doing the right thing. I didn't feel happy or that I was ensuring the survival of my society, or that the world needed that particular cat; I felt it was the right thing to do.

kctan

There's nothing wrong with DRFseven's answer. Morality does lies in the realm of emotions. Can anyone define properly what it means to be 'right' & what it means to be 'wrong' ?

You may define right as anything that benefits you while wrong as anything thing that does not benefits you. I definitely define them in another way which is directly in line with my emotional status as & when I'm doing the definition. Since my emotions are changing all the time, you would note that my 'right' & 'wrong' are not exactly fixed.

So in view of the above, 'an action (or inaction) is considered whatever if & only if you as the person doing the consideration felt that it's whatever' is an accurate protrayal of the thingy called morality.

DRFseven may not have said much but it's extremely clear in view of what morality (human judgement upon events based upon emotions) is all about.

It's all about emotions. When it comes to emotions, none can say his or hers is one step higher then another unless he or she can prove it.