Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious.
Moral philosophers say things like, __hat is actually wrong with cannibalism?_ There are two ways of responding to that: one is to shrink back in horror and say, __annibalism! Cannibalism! We can__ talk about cannibalism!_ The other is to say, __ell, actually, what is wrong with cannibalism?_ Then you work it out and you tease it out and you decide yes, actually, cannibalism is wrong, but for the following reasons. So I__ like to think that my moral values at least partly come from reasoning. Trying to suppress the gut reaction as much as possible. ["Is Richard Dawkins destroying his reputation?", The Guardian, 9 June 2015]
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Moral philosophers say things like, __hat is actually wrong with cannibalism?_ There are two ways of responding to that: one is to shrink back in horror and say, __annibalism! Cannibalism! We can__ talk about cannibalism!_ The other is to say, __ell, actually, what is wrong with cannibalism?_ Then you work it out and you tease it out and you decide yes, actually, cannibalism is wrong, but for the following reasons. So I__ like to think that my moral values at least partly come from reasoning. Trying to suppress the gut reaction as much as possible. ["Is Richard Dawkins destroying his reputation?", The Guardian, 9 June 2015]
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