What is Moralcraft?

I'm interested in morality. I've been interested in morality for a while. It's very important, in that it determines how we treat other people.

And it's something that I think is dying an ugly, horrible death, for a variety of reasons, but it all stems down to one thing. People know morals, through a variety of methods. Through traditions, through religion, through family. But much rarer, is that people know HOW those morals are crafted. They don't know the threads that make up those morals. They don't know how they got there, and why they're there. This makes them incapable of creating new moral fabric, and the moral fabric we have is never good enough.

We need to learn moralcraft. We need to know how to weave the threads together to create new moral fabric, in order to cover every situation.

So the question is..what is that thread? What is the moral arithmetic, the numbers we need to add together to decide what to do? In order to do that, we need to realize the nature of morality to begin with. To know WHY morality.

Why morality? The whole idea of morality, is that you shouldn't hurt others. There's a good reason for this. If you don't hurt others, the idea goes, and that's what is socially acceptable, then other people will not hurt you for the same reason. Which makes for a better society/world for us all to live in.

So then is morality the damage/aid that you give to others? Personally, I'd say that's a little simplistic. There has to be a modifier there. People can do good things, but for bad reasons, or
they might do bad things, but their intentions were good.

Intentions.

That's what we're looking for. Intentions DO matter, in terms of morality. Because it's the only way to actually decide what you should do. Intent without actions is meaningless. Actions without good intent is either reckless, or unreliable.

So the "math", so to speak, is actions, modified by intent. So when discussing morality, we need to do so in these two terms.