Another study found that women feel equal levels of empathy no matter how they feel about the other person's morality, whereas male empathy is conditional on a moral judgment.
Since our action will affect persons, future persons, it is part of person-affecting morality; and since it will cause a particularly harmful form of harm, namely death, it is covered by our duty not to harm others and our duty not to kill others.
When a person uses "morality" to refer to a guide to conduct put forward by a group, unless it is his own group, it is usually only being used in its descriptive sense.
Having sex does not diminish a person's morality, it is only natural for us as a biological organism.
In 2013, the Commander of Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) claimed that there's "no other way" to determine a person's morality.
Bernard Williams argues that, by abstracting persons from character, Kant misreprents persons and morality and Philippa Foot identified Kant as one of a select group of philosophers responsible for the neglect of virtue by analytic philosophy.
A person-affecting morality such understood deviates from impersonal morality in important respects.
What the different theories that have been proposed under the banner of a person-affecting morality have in common, however, are that they are welfarist theories that count people's welfare differently depending on the temporal location or the modal features of their lives.
This approach assumes that national governments are ultimately responsible to their citizens before they are responsible to any other group of persons, a "morality of states" [ 4].
And if a person believed that morality originated only in societal sanction — regardless of whether that position was true — he or she would view morality as nothing more than an instrumental good to his or her own selfish ends.
I have no interest in being a particularly virtuous person – an average morality score is perfectly OK as far as I'm concerned.
