Figuring out the Liberal Mind

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

I wonder if any Freepers are aware of Jon Haidt. His theories explain a lot and explain why we are in this current battle of Freedom vs. Fairness.

He is a self-identified liberal so don’t let your friends when you explain this to them get away with saying he is a right wing wacko.

Basically he has found that there what he calls “Moral Foundations” that humans everywhere subscribe to. These are in our makeups, and we filter information to fit them into our moral foundation.

Basically there are 5 of these:

1)Care/Harm

2)Fairness/Cheating

3)Loyalty/Betrayal

4) Authority/Anarchy

5)Purity/Hedonism

Everybody is born with these because of the human survival instinct. But instead of weighting these all the same the every human falls into 2 ways of attaching importance to these moral foundations.

The liberal attaches more weight to these foundations starting with care/harm the most important and decreasing from there to the lowest which is purity/hedonism. The conservative weighs them all equally.

If you keep this in mind, like a decoder ring liberals start making sense. The irony is by making "Do no harm" and "Fairness" the only things they think are important causes a lot of harm and unfairness because this approach is too simplistic.

Moral Foundations Theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Foundations_Theory

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TED Talk: Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives [video]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlj9za_ted-talk-jonathan-haidt-on-the-moral-roots-of-liberals-and-conservatives_news

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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Jonathan Haidt (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion-ebook/dp/B0052FF7YM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389552628&sr=8-1&keywords=haidt

[fabian]

There are decent liberals who want good for people, but have been brainwashed to think that it is government that needs to do that good. Many eventually wake up and become conservatives. It is the communists that are died in the wool and are very dangerous.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[P.O.E.]

Hipsters on Food Stamps

Worth the read, and in a similar vein about motivations and morals.