Most humans are unable to think morally because doing so requires a disciplined...
Most humans are unable to think morally because doing so requires a disciplined and well-trained mind, which they lack.
Instead, they emote and confuse it with thinking because they want it to be true. Or they adopt popular “morals” because they are popular, so that people will like them, or because some authority figure tells them it’s right.
How can we know if our mind is morally trained?
A morally trained mind:
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Uses an objective system (the truth test) to identify the difference between truth and lies and between persuasion and manipulation.
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Has trained intuition and emotional responses to rapidly identify which information and ideas need to be put to the test. (We can’t test every idea we hear; most can be dismissed on intuition.) �🏻“This “smells” funny.” A negative response to a potential lie. �🏻“This “feels” right.” A positive response to a new potential truth.
Animals test reality by producing offspring and then sending them out into the world to try different things. Those that fail die without reproducing, and those that succeed have offspring. This is the measure of success for living things.
Morality exists so that we have a testable method of knowing right from wrong. The ability to test reality in our minds allows a well-trained thinker to send his ideas off to be tested. Those who fail the truth test die. Ideas that pass the truth test take hold in our minds and in the minds of others.
This is the human advantage. We can rapidly adapt to any new environment or change in state because we do not need to risk exposing our precious children to risks in order to test new ideas.
If you can’t test ideas objectively and sort them into (possibly) true and false, moral and immoral, you are missing out on the main advantage of having a thinking human mind.
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