I hate that I have to choose between "intuition" and "reason and evidence;" my gut/instinct are crucial complements to my rational brain.
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Yes, but there's often evolutionary mismatch between Pleistocene intuitions and the modern moral landscape.
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Reason is a faulty tool at best.
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Reason and evidence but given that ethics and its relationship with the physical world is intractable, we will *have* to use intuition too.
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And this is answering without rigorously defining these terms. There is considerable scope to what people tend to mean by moral intuition.
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Morality is context-driven
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Yes, insofar as consequentialism requires analyzing the whole context of well-being vs. suffering across time, space, & sentient beings.
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I would say objective survival and time-tested traditions for aspects of the world that haven't changed.
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When people discuss morality they seem to miss that nature strikes a balance between competition and collaboration. Best related via stories
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