Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
This is a really thoughtful post and I don't really disagree with it. My response is that despite the failings, it's incredibly worthwhile to try the logic anyway. Because it creates insights, it opens new ideas, and sometimes it guides people's actions too, especially in the tough spots where the intuition gets muddled.
An interesting thing about logic and morality:

Sociopaths and psychopaths score higher than the average person on logic tests... yet look at their ability to be highly immoral.

I'm not saying that being logical makes you immoral, I'm saying that understanding and experiencing morality requires something other than logic, and sociopaths lack that "something".

Sure you could probably logically explain morality, but the explanation would be so complicated and long... it would be impossible for any one person to understand.