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24 Mar 2016 Conversations with Tyler Jonathan Haidt on Morality, Politics, and Intellectual Diversity on Campus
“Things that clearly involve harm, violations of rights, there are certain things that are predisposed to be moralized, but the genius of human beings is because we’re so tribal, we can moralize anything that gets tabbed as being predictive of what group you belong to or being part of “them.”
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- 24 Mar 2016
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…Correct. What are the forces which determine what gets put into morality and what gets put into convention? Oh boy, that’s a good question. Things that clearly involve harm, violations of rights, there are certain things that are predisposed to be moralized, but the genius of human beings is because we’re so tribal, we can moralize anything that gets tabbed as being predictive of what group you belong to or being part of “them. ” It’s funny, we see this in our politics. The core idea of Obamacare was first proposed by the Heritage Foundation, I think it was. I can’t remember what it was. Was it exchanges? Whatever it is. The mandate.…
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