Sarpedon

I still think that the moral instinct is a product of conditioning. I was raised to believe quite different things than I currently believe. I still have, for example, certain feelings that I would characterize as "religious" even though I have rejected religion. this does not mean that the religious feelings are correct. It means that they are a remenant of an earlier conditioning that I have not sufficiently de-programed out. When I experience abberant feelings, whatever their nature, I calmly observe them, and think about where they came from, and eventually they go away again. True emotions, that is to say, instincts, do not disapear, nor does reason, but conditioned responses do if they are not acted upon. I can say that I have never had a "moral feeling" that contradicted my intellectual ethics that didn't disappear very quickly. So, I say that no, they can't override my code because they are extraneous and have no substance behind them. If they had, they wouldn't disappear so quickly when reasoned about.