The reason I always say morality should be based more on logic than on emotion is:
A) People feel more empathy for people they identify with.
That's what lets people prioritise the needs of their race/class/sex/religion at the expense of others and still feel like a good person.
Tory MPs don't think they're bad people when they raise national insurance on people who can't heat their homes.
They just have more empathy with the bankers they grew up with.
So they find it easier to justify working people's suffering to themselves as 'protecting the economy'.
Racists don't think they're bad people.
They just don't feel as much empathy for people who don't look like them as they do for people they identify with.
So when they hear anything that sounds like it may balance things for minorities, all they feel is an attack on white people.
B) If you're acting based on your own emotions, then your objective is making yourself feel better.
Whereas if you're acting based on an logical analysis of what is going to remove the most suffering from others, your objective is improving the emotions of others.
I.e. Emotional intelligence is a logical analysis of the emotions of others.
Therefore emotions should inform your decisions but shouldn't directly guide them. That allows you to be more certain you're doing the right thing as you've minimised your selfish motivations.
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He definitely will have made jokes & comments about women that revealed who he was and decent men in his life shrugged them off.
REMEMBER THAT next time someone accuses those calling out sexist attitudes & language of being 'too woke'.
If a majority of MPs in another country voted to:
▪️Outlaw shouting at protest
▪️Change the law for an MP found guilty of bribery
▪️Remove the vote from 2 million people
We'd call it a corrupt dictatorship.
But Great Britain is unconditionally better than those countries, right?
Please don't let Dominic Raab or any Tory MP brag about the Policing Bill as if it's a good thing, without telling people it's part of the UK's descent into fascism. #SundayMorning
The Parliament Human Rights Committee and the UN have condemned this bill's human rights violations.
So, @sophieraworth, think about how you'll feel watching police violently suppress peaceful protesters, knowing you let Dominic Raab promote it UNCHALLENGED. #SundayMorning#Marr
I hope you just didn't know this, @sophieraworth, so I'm appealing to your conscience.
The Parliament is the body that will pass this law and it already concluded it's a human rights violation.
Tory MPs:
''We backed Boris Johnson while he illegally shut Parliament, used death threats against MPs, made us accessories to bribery, delivered the worst excess death rate in Europe and ruined the fishermen & farmers we said we'd help... But we drew the line at cheese & wine.''
Don't let the Tories pretend they didn't facilitate all this, because they WILL try to wash themselves of Boris Johnson.