Manson's Newton's Laws of Emotion argues that every emotional reaction implicitly contains a moral verdict about who deserved what. Whenever there's pain, there's a moral gap — the inflictor deserves punishment, the sufferer deserves sympathy — and the same logic applies to gifts and kindness, which is why well-mannered people refuse excessive generosity (the recipient now 'owes' the giver). Most of moral psychology, on this view, is just emotional bookkeeping of these deserved/unjust gaps. The practical lever is that you can't override the Feeling Brain — you can only reinterpret the deserving narratives it produces.
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