Empathy. Imagining the feelings of whoever would be negatively affected is usually enough to pick up the slack of the actual morality.
For example, in the case of the most awful thing I have ever seriously intended to do, I was feeling selfish and also very angry at one of the people who’d be most hurt by it. These took precedence over the empathy which usually kept me from doing it. (Luckily, the mood passed.)
Empathy. Imagining the feelings of whoever would be negatively affected is usually enough to pick up the slack of the actual morality.
For example, in the case of the most awful thing I have ever seriously intended to do, I was feeling selfish and also very angry at one of the people who’d be most hurt by it. These took precedence over the empathy which usually kept me from doing it. (Luckily, the mood passed.)