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Emotions and morality
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Prose I've always encouraged my students to express their emotions openly.
Emotions are involved in our moral decisions. Our brains are, in fact, hardwired for morality.
Neuroscience research has shown that ancient synapses within the brain light up intuitively when we make moral decisions.
The late great Frans de Waal, who died in March this year, believed that morality is a system that enhances cooperation within groups.
Furthermore, that groups work better if all involved agree on right and wrong behaviour.
My local neighbourhood group on Facebook are currently fighting over domestic violence. It is almost incomprehensible to me that people could possibly argue for it.
Whilst most of the people arguing that it isn't a big deal are white cis males, there are quite a few white women as well. Considering in Australia on average 1 woman is killed every 11 day compared to 1 man every 91 days.
I should of course mention that this isn't occuring in cis relationships, they may have a monopoly on many things, unfortunately domestic violence isn't one.
