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FEELINGS CAN HELP IN MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION


 Ethics-without-feeling also appears to go against Christian philosophy's
emphasis on love, for love is basically a strong liking desire, or emotion.
Applied religiously, exclusing feelings in moral living seems to go against the
biblical decree to worship and serve God with a joyful heart or feeling.
 Our moral compasses are also strongly influenced by the fleeting forces of
disgust, fondness, or fear. Indeed, subjective feelings sometimes matter
when deciding right and wrong. Sometimes, cold, impartial, rational
thinking is not the only proper way to make an ethical decision.
 The feelings or emotions involved in moral thinking should be anchored on
careful consideration of a full range of right goals, including altruistic ones.
This consideration ought to mesh wirh an emotional instinctive reaction
that provides a motivation to act ethically and correct injustices.

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