Do People Have A Moral Sense?
are what you would call dangerous; things that we cannot have, or things that are bad. Our self-control is having to choose between these two different items. I am always reminded of the cartoon Tom and Jerry. In a lot of episodes, Jerry has the choice of doing something mean to Tom, or vice versa. What happens next? Well, a tiny devil on their left shoulder shows up telling them to do the bad things, be mean to that person. Then there is this tiny angel, our conscience, telling us to do what is right. However, in the cartoons, usually the devil beats up the angel, and Jerry will do something horrible to Tom. It’s a choice of self-control. Humans are quite a bit different from Tom and Jerry. We do have to make choices, but our own little devil usually does not win out. Wilson tells us that self-control is only a problem when one is faced with a choice between an immediate pleasure and a more distant one that is of greater value. If we decline that fifth glass of beer, we avoid the hang
