6/29/2023 0 Comments Haidt the righteous mind![]() ![]() ![]() Some liberals began to see powerful corporations and wealthy industrialists as the chief threats to liberty. ![]() Anyone who blames such victims for their own problems or who displays or merely excuses prejudice against sacralized victim groups can expect a vehement tribal response. For American liberals since the 1960s, I believe that the most sacred value is caring for victims of oppression. Liberals are often suspicious of appeals to loyalty, authority,and sanctity, although they don’t reject these intuitions in all cases (think of the sanctification of nature). ![]() The left builds its moral matrix an three of the six foundations, but it rests most firmly and consistently on the Care foundation. More specifically, moral capital refers to “the degree to which a community possesses interlocking sets of values, virtues, norms, practices, identities, institutions, and technologies that mesh well with evolved psychological mechanisms and thereby enable the community to suppress or regulate selfishness and make cooperation possible.” We can define moral capital as the resources that sustain a moral community. ![]()
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