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Originally Posted by King of Old School

Willingness to do something isn't necessarily the same as believing it moral.

To go the next step, believing something to be moral doesn't lessen the psychological impact of it, which is what the morality meters are more about than actual morality. Losing points in the morality scales represents a loss of barriers. You become fine with stealing. You are okay with having to kill people now and then. Torture is okay, so long as it is for a good cause. As you lose points, the barriers on your behavior crumble under the force of your rationalizations and soon you have lost any ethical constraints. Any action can be justified. As you reject the idea of right and wrong for your own personal judgment, you eventually reach the point where anything you want to do is right because it is what you want to do. You've made yourself the ultimate authority. This is the essence of hubris.