Can anyone describe how emotions are used with moral reasoning? Can anyone give me an example?

Answer 1

Here's a couple examples:

If you think of stealing something you immediately FEAR the consequences if you are caught.

If you hurt something that didn't deserve to be mistreated, you immediately feel guilt because you know you were the one out of control and that you took your emotions out on a helpless creature. (Psychopaths don't feel this guilt however).

Answer 2

I think our conscience is an emotion. Our conscience hurts us when we do something wrong. I think we train/inform our conscience to warn us of moral problems but having been warned, our reason should take over.

I see a beggar out on the street and I have feelings of sympathy and my conscience bothers me which forces my attention. I can try to help the situation or I can ignore it. If I ignore it, the next time I may not even notice the beggar. We can dull our conscience or sharpen it. But the action we take should be from reason.