Why don't you understand what I'm SAYING?

It makes sense that people choose their political parties based on moral beliefs, especially considering how much politics revolves around subjects that require morals. Everything from abortion to the war in the Middle East is based on morals. And by the way, I think I would be able to justify why I answered "no" to those questions.

Do you think morals are based on more emotional decision-making? Do we reason about them independently or take them from our parents?

Yes, sometimes logic can't be the weapon to win the heart of others. Emotional approach might be way better than logic. The morals of people are quite different from others, so I think the best way is to understand and value on how other people think of their moral, and show respects to them.

I think a significant part of decision-making, especially in regards to politics, is emotional decision making. First in relation to politics, most political ads and campaigns today targets voters with statements that try and move the masses emotionally in order to win a vote. I think a good example with this is the Kony campaign. The Kony campaign has spread like wildfire gaining support all over the web with it's moving 30 minute movie. However how many those that "shared" it on facebook actually took the time to look up what % of the profits went to the actually cause, where the money went in relation to the actual cause (as in how it helped the cause) and/or looked up other organizations that are also involved with the cause to see what those organizations were doing compared to invisible children? I am not at all challenging or supporting the kony campaign, but simply trying to point out how people will make a decision based off of a emotionally moving video instead of research the facts. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those asked to defend their opinions and cannot is because they made that decision or found themselves holding a moral that was based off of emotionally supported logic instead of facts and research.

Emotional reasoning guides us in our decision making as opposed to logical reasoning. If you pay attention to advertising, you will find that generally ads are based on either fear, humor, or sex appeal. This is actually very sad because people in politics, marketing, etc. make us do or buy certain things by literally pushing our emotional buttons.

Haidt argues that moral grounds are built on care, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority and sanctity. He has found related themes that carry moral weight: divinity, community, hierarchy, tradition, sin and degradation. So the role of the family and morals depends on culture one is brought up in and the emphasis placed on authority, hierarchy and tradition.

This definition makes a lot of sense to me. A lot of the time I find using logic to argue with someone is useless because they are unwilling to really listen to my logic. Instead, they have preset morals set in their head that they are scared to stray from, which is explained here. Very interesting read!

I used to be a debater, and rhetoric was always a crucial and interesting part of every debate. It's interesting and complicated how people establish their morals and how they value different things. While we can't always use logic to explain our beliefs, it doesn't seem to matter to a lot of people that they can't use logic to justify their morals and political beliefs. Many people have their own thoughts and don't need logic to argue them, they still exist even if evidence to support or refute them doesn't.