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To: tbw2

Thanks. Good stuff.

As an aside, what does Jonathan Haidt do.


156 posted on 01/09/2021 9:45:18 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Moral psychologist. How personality influences worldview.

Liberalism is directly correlated to love of novelty. Hence raising “diversity” to a moral good and hating the familiar culture and people.

Libertarians are most likely to be high on reactance, the personality trait that makes you resist when being told to do something. Americans are also unique for having 10-15% of the population in this category, when it is less than 5% elsewhere.

There’s also the issue of moral “channels”. What determines morality? For the far left, it is ONLY perceived fairness and care/harm. Care harm is “don’t physically hurt them, don’t kill them”. For conservatives, moral factors include respect for authority/tradition, moral purity, and in-group loyalty. To liberals, respect for tradition is oppressive. Moral purity rules are generally considered bad, but I’ve noticed a lot of liberals abandoned sexual purity rules but then micromanage the ethics of food. And in-group loyalty is considered bad by classic liberals, but social justice jihadis brought it back with identity politics.


159 posted on 01/09/2021 9:56:40 AM PST by tbw2
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