We can understand something just feels wrong or right as we experience it.
OK, I get that.
But I don't get how that is outside the moral-system paradigm. It may be a natural or instinctive or essential moral system but it's still a moral system.
Maybe you're trying to make a distinction between the underlying or essential right or wrong, the concept, and the laundry list of acts or behaviors or traits, dos and don'ts, that some systems, particularly religious systems, have come up with for distribution as books of morality for dummies.
Regarding knowing morality or immorality when we see it, I think that's far from perfect. We humans are sentimental and much of what we think of as wrong is a misleading visceral reaction. We also instinctively experience disgust. It's an evolutionary benefit. Now, disgust is a factor in Haidt's moral foundation theory, the "sanctity" one, but, like sentimentality, it can be misleading. Something disgusting is not necessarily immoral by any rational standard.
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