Most of human morals have been generated ad hoc based on limited knowledge of the human organism, be it biologically, psychologically, intellectually, emotionally, or socially. Certainly, we have stumbled upon heuristics that are more and less adaptive for various historical epochs, but what if we could deliberately begin to construct an ethics based on what we ACTUALLY are? Or, as close to it as modern tools of inquiry allow.
The image above, adapted from the work of Joscha Bach (as he discusses in various talks) is an example of how our various drives (physiologic, social, intellectual) interplay to affect what is motivating at any given moment in time. You can see the gas and brake pedals for each of the needs, and how things like confidence will influence how salient and arousing those needs can be. Imagine for each individual person a different gain or sensitivity to the gas and brake pedals. Or that each source of a need might have a larger reserve or be more easily exhausted.
Some cognitive scientists believed that theory of mind first evolved to understand other agents, then later became applied to the mind doing the theorizing. Ie, we first learned to understand other people, and then once that ability was online, were able to begin to understand our own mind. I believe that the more tools we have to understand how minds work in general will allow individuals to understand themselves AND OTHERS, in a way that will become mutually reinforcing.
Imagine the broad impacts of learning the technical aspects of human motivation while still in primary education. Imagine the self compassion and social compassion that will emerge when we better know how our buttons are pushed.