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Disgust is only one of the relevant psychometric dimensions in Jonathan Haidt's model, which is where this bit comes from. In a nutshell, Haidt found that liber

Disgust is only one of the relevant psychometric dimensions in Jonathan Haidt's model, which is where this bit comes from. In a nutshell, Haidt found that liberals reason about moral problems almost exclusively through the lens of fairness, while Consevatives use a larger "moral toolbox." http://www.moralfoundations.org/ http://www.moralfoundations.org/ One of the more interesting observations out of Haidt's work is that conservatives can reliably articulate the ideas of liberals as a liberal would. But the inverse is not true. Liberals have difficulty emulating perspectives that include concepts such as the divine.

saraid216 13y ago
> One of the more interesting observations out of Haidt's work is that conservatives can reliably articulate the ideas of liberals as a liberal would. But the inverse is not true. Liberals have difficulty emulating perspectives that include concepts such as the divine. In the interest of not setting off a flame war, I'm going to point out that this phenomenon can be explained in at least two directions (the obvious one and the reverse) and leave it at that.
gnaritas 13y ago
> Liberals have difficulty emulating perspectives that include concepts such as the divine. I would hope so, since divine anything is simply ignorant and doesn't belong in any moral toolbox.
- c0achmcguirk 13y ago
  > I would hope so, since divine anything is simply ignorant and doesn't belong in any moral toolbox. Please save your intolerant ignorance for your atheist message boards. There is nothing ignorant about belief in God.
  - gnaritas 13y ago
    > There is nothing ignorant about belief in God. There's little more ignorant than an adult who still has an imaginary friend and insists he's real.
    - c0achmcguirk 13y ago
      > There's little more ignorant than an adult who still has an imaginary friend and insists he's real. Oooh, can I argue the same way? I mean, by begging the question and arguing using ipse dixit? Here goes: There's little more ignorant than an adult who doesn't believe in God.
      - gnaritas 13y ago
        Oh you've confused an insult for an argument; not surprising for one who prays to the sky. Go find some fellow delusional people in a church or something, this is Hacker News, not the Delusional Daily.
        c0achmcguirk 13y ago
        Feel better? So back to your original comment about moral toolboxes--what would belong in yours? How do they get there? What morals do you think others should follow?
        gnaritas 13y ago
        > Feel better? Do you? Do you need to go pray now? > So back to your original comment about moral toolboxes--what would belong in yours? How do they get there? What morals do you think others should follow? Reality based morality like secular humanism, not ignorance passed down from iron age savages who didn't know fuck all about the world and thought Gods made things happen.
        c0achmcguirk 13y ago
        > Reality based morality like secular humanism, not ignorance passed down from iron age savages who didn't know fuck all about the world and thought Gods made things happen. Sounds pretty arbitrary. How do you choose the right morals? Coin toss? Can you say someone else is wrong?
        13y ago

saraid216 13y ago

> One of the more interesting observations out of Haidt's work is that conservatives can reliably articulate the ideas of liberals as a liberal would. But the inverse is not true. Liberals have difficulty emulating perspectives that include concepts such as the divine. In the interest of not setting off a flame war, I'm going to point out that this phenomenon can be explained in at least two directions (the obvious one and the reverse) and leave it at that.

gnaritas 13y ago

> Liberals have difficulty emulating perspectives that include concepts such as the divine. I would hope so, since divine anything is simply ignorant and doesn't belong in any moral toolbox.

c0achmcguirk 13y ago
> I would hope so, since divine anything is simply ignorant and doesn't belong in any moral toolbox. Please save your intolerant ignorance for your atheist message boards. There is nothing ignorant about belief in God.
- gnaritas 13y ago
  > There is nothing ignorant about belief in God. There's little more ignorant than an adult who still has an imaginary friend and insists he's real.
  - c0achmcguirk 13y ago
    > There's little more ignorant than an adult who still has an imaginary friend and insists he's real. Oooh, can I argue the same way? I mean, by begging the question and arguing using ipse dixit? Here goes: There's little more ignorant than an adult who doesn't believe in God.
    - gnaritas 13y ago
      Oh you've confused an insult for an argument; not surprising for one who prays to the sky. Go find some fellow delusional people in a church or something, this is Hacker News, not the Delusional Daily.
      - c0achmcguirk 13y ago
        Feel better? So back to your original comment about moral toolboxes--what would belong in yours? How do they get there? What morals do you think others should follow?
        gnaritas 13y ago
        > Feel better? Do you? Do you need to go pray now? > So back to your original comment about moral toolboxes--what would belong in yours? How do they get there? What morals do you think others should follow? Reality based morality like secular humanism, not ignorance passed down from iron age savages who didn't know fuck all about the world and thought Gods made things happen.
        c0achmcguirk 13y ago
        > Reality based morality like secular humanism, not ignorance passed down from iron age savages who didn't know fuck all about the world and thought Gods made things happen. Sounds pretty arbitrary. How do you choose the right morals? Coin toss? Can you say someone else is wrong?
        13y ago