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Old 03-15-2014, 12:20 PM  
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Originally Posted by TheSquealer View Post
Well,
Speaking from a standpoint of neuroscience that is exactly correct. The first thing that happens is a flash of negative or positive emotion. That does not involve conscious thinking or awareness. Conscious awareness is an "after the fact" phenomenon. Once that positive or negative emotion ties to conscious awareness, we can easily override it by rationalizing our determined course of action.
Surely that's what morals *are* though? Your conscious awareness of a situation, and whether to rectify it if you feel it is wrong. The rest is just nature working, no? The initial feeling of it being right or wrong that we get in itself isn't morals, it's as you say, that initial positive or negative emotion naturally occurring. Morals only come into it after the fact (even if only a split-second), and are subjective to each person - though the majority of the time most people have a fairly 'standard' moral compass to which we adhere.
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