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'Avoid hurting others' is an overly simplistic description - if you read the problems I posed in a post further up, there are many cases where someone is going to get hurt, but you get to decide who. Are there cases where killing would be justified? You have a gun to his head, he has a gun to your head - what are you going to do? The first guy to pull the trigger wins, but you could both just walk away. Would you count on your opponent to just walk away? Far more likely that he'll pull that trigger, so you have to pull it too. But that's killing - which, according to most of you, is somehow inherently 'wrong' (I don't buy that, by the way).
Morality seems to wrap itself around intuition. If I encounter a moral dilemma and act on instinct rather than trying to reason it out, I am confident that I will be performing according to my own moral standard.
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Sure I have a heart; it's floating in a jar in my closet, along with my tonsils, my appendix, and all of the other useless organs I ripped out.
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