道德在很大程度上是出于情感的,就像亚当·斯密在《道德情操论》里说的,道德是锦上添花的东西,是把你放在别人的位置上产生的情感。但是,道德的维度非常多,各维度之间可能是相互冲突的。基于道德来制定我们的行为规范就会出现问题。比方说我们的法律,其中有一条说年轻人有定时看望父母的义务。这在现代社会显然很难实现,因为人口流动很多,看望父母这件事往往会和其他事情发生冲突。 Morality is largely emotional, just as Adam Smith said in The Theory of Moral Sentiments that morality is an icing on the cake, the emotion that places you in the other’s place. However, the moral dimension is very large and the dimensions may be mutually conflicting. There are problems with developing our code of conduct based on ethics. For example, our law, one of them says that young people have the obligation to visit their parents regularly. Obviously, this is very difficult to achieve in modern society because of the large population movements and the frequent visits to parents that often conflict with other things.