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To: one_less who wrote (69577)	5/3/2018 9:02:25 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361070

If you can pose a specific question/challenge to one of the items, I will do my best to deal with the question. I listed four. You addressed patience. You wrote: I think of patience as something to do. So it comes into the do's list. Which didn't explain why it is moral or about morality. I suspect I missed your point here. I'll be more direct. It looks to me like you're making a category error. You are conflating morality and qualities of disposition or temperament or character. Patience is a personal quality that is desirable to have. Greed, not so desirable. The act of stealing, whether from greed or something else, is immoral. Greed and patience, however, are neither immoral nor moral. Different paradigm/category. You can call it a "do list," although is seems to me more of a "have list." Regardless, it's a different category, not a moral foundation or an element of a moral foundation. Intent to cause harm or intending to bring about well being (to self or other) lies at the heart of each item we could list under the Alpha umbrella. The qualities of patience or greed may enable us to perform a moral or immoral or immoral act, respectively. Disposition, however, is not intent and it's certainly not an act, which could be moral or immoral.