You can learn morality in more than one way.
You can learn morality through compassion and feeling.
And then some people might be better at learning morality through reason.
Like Spock from Star Trek.
Learning to become devoted to kindness and morality through reason, rather than through feeling.
Most people have what you might call a compassion instinct.
We all can feel things directly.
In most human beings, the compassion instinct reinforces direct feeling when it becomes about compassion for others.
You don't have to notice the feeling of pain in someone else, felt directly but faintly, and then realize, that's a pain that someone else is feeling, and then realize that you should help them.
A social instinct in your brain does this for you.
Some people lack this compassion instinct.
In people like this, morality and kindness is more easily learned on a rational level.
Like Spock from Star Trek, they can learn kindness as a rational being, without as much emotion clouding their judgement.
Without the rational teaching of morality, when these people with this kind of brain become hurt, or get trapped in cycles of greed and temptation, they don't have the compassion instinct holding them back.
These are the kinds of people who become psychopathic killers.
But being a psychopathic killer is not a feature of this kind of brain. It is a feature of an unguided brain.
Unguided, the brain does not know better and goes wild, like a wild animal.
Anyone who lacks rational or emotional teaching of the right kind will end up like that if they are in pain or trapped in a cycle of greed.
Donald Trump, for example, has a well-developed compassion instinct. He uses it to feel what his audience will respond to.
But he never was taught morality, either rationally or emotionally. He probably would have more easily learned morality emotionally.
Instead he knows nothing but money and material things.
Someone whose brain lacks the compassion instinct simply needs to get that guidance through reason.
With less emotion clouding their judgement, but just as strong a brain, they will probably have an easier time learning morality and kindness rationally than most of us.
They just need it to be taught rationally.
It is when a brain lacks this guidance that a person is susceptible to going bad, and even then, there needs to be some kind of motivation.
As we have seen with the case of Donald Trump, someone with a well-developed compassion instinct can still lack guidance, if they never got the right emotional teaching.
If you know nothing bur material things, it is a terrifying thing, compassion instinct or no compassion instinct.
People like Donald Trump who know nothing but money and material things deserve our compassion.
Some people simply need to learn that compassion rationally.
God loves you! All of you!
There is not a one among you who can't be taught love!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson