Love Pleasure, Avoid Pain

It is found to be true that most people dislike pain and prefer pleasure or happiness. This should not be a surprise to anyone. This fact can help develop a foundation for morality. If an action or thought brings pleasure to you as well as others around you, then it can be considered moral. This can get tricky though because pleasure is not always immediate. You have to look into the future and weight the options. For example, if you are really mad at someone and hit them, you might feel immediate pleasure. But, if you think that you actions are bringing pain to others, you would not do hit the person. Causing pain is immoral because it brings suffering to others. If we expect people to treat us in a moral manner, then we must use each other as examples. People use each others’ actions as mirrors. If it was moral to bring pain to one another, pain would not be something that people feared or tried to avoid. People, usually, strive to be moral and do not like to admit that they are acting in an immoral way. Therefore, people must act in a way that is pleasing to all others.