Dan Grant s problem was a moral problem. The heart of morality is concern for the well-being of people. Trying to be moral means nothing more nor less than trying to act as a fully human person and to treat other people in a humane fashion. Each of the hundreds of decisions we make each day has a moral dimension as those decisions affect our lives and those of other people. This does not mean, however, that every choice we make is automatically a moral one.
Some decisions appear to be morally neutral, matters of taste.
For example, we face a variety of choices in what we eat for breakfast, what kind of car to buy for the family, where to spend Friday night or what TV program to watch this evening. There are many ways to live the good life, and matters of taste are not directly moral questions. But whatever we do affects other people. And that s what gives the moral dimension to decision-making. To do the moral thing means something other than simply doing what is legal.