The homo sapien is an intensely social animal, social species and survival depends largely on being successful with interactions with out neighbors. As with other social animals we have evolved distinct “Brain Circuits” dedicated to bonding, cooperation, and predictions of actions of others. We also recognize people have their own thoughts, their own feelings, of their own called “Perception.”
Made to be social, one of the most distinctive features of the human brain is the large area of memories, in relatively recently developed outer layers. The Frontal Cortex, the part of the Neocortex that surrounds the frontal lobe is responsible for abstract meaning, and reasoning, conscious thought and emotion planning and organization and is highly developed in humans.
Jesus Christ too was the son of Mary who lived 2000 years ago. He lived, he died on the Cross, because of those who did not Value his life. He was buried and left a message;”Love your neighbor as you wish to be love.” If you want to be treated with Value, “Value others.” His Mother taught him this valuable message and he lived it, and was hung on a cross for Loving.
Normal people brought up in a normal environment have a distinctive sense what is right and what is wrong. It seems to be “hard wired.”
Feeling for another person, and experiencing a faint version of their sorrow or flinching for them when you see them hurting seems to be largely instinctive. It depends on theory of mind which ensures what we know is likely to be going on in other people’s minds. Empathy goes a step further in that it involves “echoing,” the emotion of another in person. When a person is told a story about someone experiencing emotional trauma, this activates areas in the listeners brain and comes into play when he or she is in such a situation. It is a sympathetic stance when you can put yourself in someone else’s shoes or situation to experience an echo of what they feel, and you sympathize with them and it appears to be an instinctive human trait.
Morality the sense of right and wrong permeates all our social perception and interactions. Moral decision making is partly learned but is also depends on emotions which give value to actions and experiences when making moral judgements two overlapping but distinct brain circuits come into play. One is a “rational circuit” which weighs up pros and cons. The other is emotional circuitry. It generates a fast and instinctive sense of what is right and wrong. The two circuits do not always arrive at the same conclusion because emotions are based toward self survival and or protecting those are are relatives to us or oneself. We homo sapiens are All relatives.
Emotional bias in moral judgements seems to rely on activity in the “Vetromedial” and Orbitofrontal Prefrontal Cortex.” Studies of people with damage to their brain areas have found this area of moral judgements are more rational that those of suggesting human morality is “hard wired,” into the brain and evolved more to protect ourselves than do good.
“Moral Judgements Circuitry” along with “Emotions” play a crucial role in moral decision making in order to arrive at moral Decisions, and are shown in brain associated with Emotional Experience work along side those that register facts, and consider possible outcomes and actions of others.
The Parietal lobe in fMRI showed physical movements such as acts of aggression and are registered also in the Superior Temporal Sulcus. The Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus works with the Parietal lobe in actions. The Posterior Cingulate Cortex integrates emotions and perception to construct meaningful social narration. Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex with working memory holds current situations in mind while drawing on memories to decide on course of action. Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex imparts emotional bias to morals and their judgements. Temporal Pole gives emotional tones to memories which contribute to judging current moral situations. The Amygdala Registers emotions in self and others. Medial frontal gyrus integrates emotion into decision making. Orbitofrontal Prefrontal Cortex and the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex introduces emotional Values into Social Judgements and evaluates personal reward and punishment systems.
Altruism is the notion people can do something for others with no motivation of a direct reward for themselves. The notion of Altruism that people do things for others based on no motivation of a direct reward for themselves. However, brain scans show that doing good things is personally rewarding. One fMRI study was conducted while participating made or withheld donations to real Charities. The participants could keep any donations they refused to make. The result showed that both keeping the money and giving it away activated the “brain reward pathways.” Giving away money also enhanced activity in the brain concerned with belonging.
Morality and Rationality, two circuits that generate Moral Judgements do not always arrive at the same conclusion. The one that engages emotions depends on protecting tribal Unites rather than adhering to social codes that includes for example, the right to Justice and equal Rights.
Hence the instinctive or Natural Judgements we make, may only be arrived a after consideration. Our behavior often reveals the inner conflict. We tend to help people who are close to similar to us more than those who are distant and strange. We favor those most similar to self. We stay committed to Justice for those who have been murdered and we Judge those who murdered harshly rather than acts of emission. Concerning ourselves about acts at a distance that are causing pain up close acts of commission. “Thou shalt not kill is a commandment.”
There are consequences that are immense for killing. Psychopaths are people defined as people who are manipulators, intimidators, and act out violence against others and satisfy selfish needs. They display an inability to feel guilt, remorse, or anxiety about their antisocial behavior. This may result from damage in developmental problems involving moral circuitry in the brain. This is shown in fMRI scans in the imaging of Psychopaths. They show way less fear.
Rational Morality insists we treat All people with the same treatment and Value. We make Judgements by result of the actions vs inaction rather than by the act in aggressive or passive behaviors. We judge based on Social behaviors and these actions if moral, should equal out outcomes.
I deem rape as immoral and irrational. I deem trafficking of homo sapiens as immoral and irrational. I deem shooting children in schools as irrational and immoral. I deem being elected and NOT stepping down in Democracy elections as immoral and irrational. I deem that over taxing people so they cannot afford to eat as irrational and immoral. I deem that any economy that does not provide for its population as irrational and immoral. I deem tanks running over citizens for no apparent reason immoral and irrational. I deem killing babies who are newborns irrational and immoral. I deem that 1 percent of the population of the world having all the money and the rest not having enough to eat, irrational and immoral. I deem making a man made virus called Covid 19 from a manipulated group of sequentia in Gain of Function Research as immoral and irrational. A biological attack of any kind on homo sapiens who are biological organisms, living in a bio-diverse biosphere is not only irrational, and immoral, but ludicrous in every sense of ludicrous meaning. There is nothing logical, not rational, nothing moral about this decision. I deem calling a virus that can kill people a “hoax” irrational and immoral. I deem to be silent on the release of a virus into the world of homo sapiens and not taking responsibility is irrational and immoral and ludicrous for All human kind as extinction is a high possibility from this action. Extinction, or depopulating of homo sapiens world wide is a irrational and immoral decision. I deem that children who have no awareness of Truth, and decision making abilities with consequences in our world, should not be used for Politics as this is immoral and irrational. 25 is the year a adult emerges from teenage years and dependent living with parents. Treating children as adults when they are not adults, is immoral and irrational. Using drugs in an economy that you know are damaging to a human brain is irrational and immoral. Attacking an economy from within a country when you have to pay for it as a tax payer is immoral and irrational and ludicrous in every sense of that meaning, because it puts the taxes up even more. And then to complain about high taxes after doing as such, or being reinforced for you actions by governing bodies, even shows more lunacy on behalf of governing bodies. This lacks any Value for tax payer struggling who are forced to pay high taxes in the first place just for being born. Immoral and Value stricken with irrational thinking by Politician. I deem myself a I N F J moral and Judgemental instinctual, intuitive, knowledge consultant. Biological attacks on homo sapiens unforgivable. Teaching Children to be afraid of Love, God is Love, a well known fact, is irrational. Love is Love, so why can God not be Love from Mary, Jesus’s mother. What are we not mystical enough for you? You teach hatred. Hatred is irrational, and immoral. Hatred causes war. I also see skin cells as an identifier for peoples, ludicrous, immoral, and irrational. Men born with penises, being a women, is even more irrational. Chemistry causing environmental attacks on our biology is irrational, immoral and hurtful to every human being. Irrational, Immoral, and Value stricken as no Value for females and the birth of their child exists in this social setting. I DEEM HEALTH AS A NECESSARY OF ABSOLUTION.
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