Moral

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway

We tend to rely on other people to tell us what is right and what is wrong. And when we are small, we think that the grownups know everything. They surely know what we should be doing and what we shouldn't. And those grownups are only too happy to tell us what to do. We learn quickly that if we do something that they don't approve of, then we will get into trouble. We then start to beleive that what is moral is what other people want us to do (for them), and what is immoral is what other people don't want us to do (for them).

We learn very quickly to listen to what other people say we should do instead of relying on our own intuitions and feelings about what we want to do. We learn to not trust ourselves, to doubt what our own body and mind is telling us. But in fact, only we can really know the best thing for us to be doing. When other people tell us what to do, they are really telling us what we should do to please them, not what we need to do for ourselves.

What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. The truth is that if everyone relyed on his or her own intuitions and feelings then it would not be some free-for-all but a much better world. We are designed in such a way that doing the right thing necessarily makes us feel better.

We only do immoral things because we cannot find a way to do moral ones; we don't know how to make someone else's life better. We often do immoral things in a desperate attempt to get other people to notice us, not knowing how to get them to approve of us. We still feel bad at the end of it because we have not acheived what we really want, which is the knowledge that we have somehow improved the world by making another person happier. This knowledge is the only thing that makes us feel good at the end of the day