A deeper dive into this is "The Righteous Mind" by Haidt. In brief, the brain seems to have affinity for different types of morality. The actual content of tha

A deeper dive into this is "The Righteous Mind" by Haidt. In brief, the brain seems to have affinity for different types of morality. The actual content of that morality is filled in by people you have respect for. The flavors of morality he uses are The Care/Harm Foundation The Fairness/Cheating Foundation The Loyalty/Betrayal Foundation The Authority/Subversion Foundation The Sanctity/Degradation Foundation The Liberty/Oppression Foundation These should not be used as absolutes. Humans have always formed tribes. It took me a month to finish the book and that wasn't because the words were hard, the concepts take a lot of emotional bandwidth.