Posted on 06/01/2023 3:36:00 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Specifically, the studies by Jost and his colleagues, including Michael Strupp-Levitsky, who conducted the work as an NYU undergraduate and is now a doctoral candidate at Long Island University-Brooklyn, showed that those moral foundations known to be more appealing to liberals than conservatives—specifically, fairness and harm avoidance—are linked to empathic motivation, whereas the moral foundations that are more appealing to conservatives than to liberals —such as ingroup loyalty and deference to authority—are not.
In fact, the “binding foundations” cited by previous studies as evidence of a broad “moral palette” are associated with authoritarianism, social dominance, and economic system justification—matters quite apart from morality. Moreover, they are also associated with psychological motives to reduce uncertainty and threat, consistent with a theory of political ideology as motivated social cognition that Jost and other collaborators proposed in 2003.
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They set up the study to get the results they wanted. If you believe there are rules, they call that authoritarianism. If you want government to break the rules to equalize results, they call that fairness or social justice. And it’s the supposed intentions that matter. You may not make anything better, but you can tell yourself you are fighting for social justice, and they will believe you.
Total BS IMHO. Conservatives want the Constitution to reign supreme, RINOs and libs want feelings to be the standard
I am surprised that more FREEPERS don’t know about the moral foundations theory by John Haidt.
Here is his Ted Talk:
https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_the_moral_roots_of_liberals_and_conservatives
He has done his exremely exentsive worldwide research and found that all societies are divided by what we call conservatives and liberals and that conservatives have more moral foundations than liberals who only care about the immediate avoidance of pain. Pretty good from an Ivy Liberal academic.
Yes modern liberalism has nothing to do with classic liberalism
bump to the top
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