The Act Feelings and Moral Decision-Making

• Manila, Philippines - The free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) said on Thursday, April 4, that initial drug war documents showed a lack of effort to investigate the killings committted under the mantle of Oplan Tokhang.
• "Investigation leaves so much to be desired. While all cases indicate that investigations are on going, it appears that not much effort has been placed into identifying and arresting the assailants, based on the length of time devoted to investigating the case," said FLAG's Ted Te in a new conference on Thursday with FLAG chairman and opposition senatorial candidate Chel Diokno.
• Human beings - are the most self-conscious animals which allows them to develop "basic emotional responses" and create more complex rational systems to help them survive. This is what differs human from animals (Simons, I.. 2009)
• Philosophy Profeossor Jordi Valverdu - In According to him, the role of our emotions is for survival and innate social responsibilities.
• fight or flight mode - Their primary tool for survival,
• This response is triggered by "fear," which people feel when they sense a potential threat or danger.
• Charles Darwin - was one of the first people to study human feelings or emotional response. According to hum, aside from survival, we also use our feelings to communicate with each other.
• Darwin's 3 Principles are:

  1. Principle of Serviceable Habits
  2. Principle of Anti-Thesis
  3. Principle of Direct Action of the Excited Nervous System
• feelings or emotional responses - help human beings survive from potential dangers and communicate their needs and desires.
• A balance of feelings, reason, and impartiality - make a person a better decision-maker in this Life.
• Feelings - makes a person more empathic and better communicator while reason and Impartiality pushes him or her to be objective i n assessing situations.
• Feelings - In order to come up with a good decision, we should not rely on this.
• Logic - use to analyze our problems, options, and decisions.
• Reason - Is the capacity to see the interconnectedness of things and the logic behind the processes involved.
• Impartiality - is the principle of detaching oneself rom any form of bias and prejudice in order to come up with an objective criteria that is free from unfair and unequal treatment of one type of person to another.