Jonathan Haidt is a left-of-center social psychologist I’ve referenced a number of times before because he has done some amazing work on the moral differences between conservatives and liberals. Basically, Haidt would say that you can break morality down into six areas: 1) Care/Harm 2) Fairness/Cheating 3) Liberty/Oppression 4) Loyalty/Betrayal 5) Authority/Subversion 6) Sanctity/Degradation According to Haidt, the liberal sense of morality (ahem, such as it is) revolves around the first three areas in that list – care/harm, fairness/cheating, and liberty/oppression, while conservatives tend to weigh all six factors. Because conservatives get all six factors, while liberals only really care about three of them, this leads to…Open
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Culture Perfection’s Prison Too much disorder makes life a hell—but what of too much order? My computer’s wallpaper shot, the picture that comes up whenever I turn the computer, changes regularly, at whose or what’s instigation I know not, but certainly not at mine. I suppose that it—or is it they?—must have some inkling of my taste, for never does anything visually offensive to me appear. Recently, a panoramic view of the Bavarian town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber came up. The town was picture-perfect: not a parked car in sight, nor (come to think of it) any human being, human beings being so messy. At first I took the…Open
