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Should I tell the truth and weaken social bonds or keep silent and maintain social bonds?
I cinsider the importance to me of a truth or a bond then I make my choice. Outcomes vary.
What kind of truths do you mean?
Politics/religion? "How are you doing?" Secrets?
<blockquote>I cinsider the importance to me of a truth or a bond then I make my choice.</blockquote>
How does this count as a <i>moral</i> decision?
The moral choice is indicated by a question mark in the sentence prior to the one you quote. The sentence you quote is my resolution process. The final sentence is the outcome.
I still don't see why this is supposed to be moral reasoning. It's just about the importance of things to you. To me it looks like just as much of a moral decision as your decision to have toast for breakfast or not.
It shouldn't be the "importance to me", but the importance to everyone and everything. On top of that, dilemmas tend to be about what we have a bias in. The calculus of virtue is a real danger, and unwise. We shouldn't do it, but we do it anyway. Remember, the bright are the most likely to be biased.
The compromise is to at least ask opinion to another person.
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes