Reply #67: Reading it again, I see you have even more than I asked [View All]

I started this thread because I had recently read in a book that our morality was basically rooted in our experiences and feelings, specifically our feelings of well-being. It rang true to me, but I'm not the type to rely solely on intuition, so I thought discussing here might help clarify my thoughts about this. Up until this point, it was something that made a lot of sense to me, but you made it real when you said:

There can be all sorts of sociology explanations religious tenets and what not to explain it,but idf you cannot FEEL the answer you will not understand it and your morality is controlled by beliefs not be real life understanding.

As you said, we all have the freedom to make our choices as to who we are going to be, and I suspect that the choices we make are strongly influenced by our experiences and how they affect our sense of well-being. But there's this one thing that troubles me, and again, it reminds me of the narture vs nurture debate; Which comes first?

The choices we make? Which lead to experiences that affect our sense of well-being? Or do the experiences lead to the choices? And if it's some sort of cycle, then how does it get broken? If someone has chosen the "easy" way, how do we convince them the hard way is even better, particularly if they don't feel that way?

And like you said, I think it comes to showing people that there is another way. By expressing how we feel through our actions and words, we can show people who *do* feel the same as we do that they need not go along for sake of "convenience".

Thanks for all that. I haven't read the other links yet, but I'm sure I'll get around to it.