Five foundations of morality, part 2

Tetlock, P.E. (2003). Thinking about the unthinkable: Coping with secular encroachments on sacred values. Trends in Cognitive Science, 7, 320-324.

In other words, how sacred do I hold these five foundations?

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I'll let y'all decide on how to interpret that.  The first graph is an indicator on how much I care about each foundation of morality, and the second is the number of times I said I'd never violate a foundation for any amount of money.  I think the only reason why I got 4.0 in Harm and Authority each is because the idea of being able to throw a rotten tomato at Dick Cheney without getting caught… well, damn, that's mighty appealing!  (Yeah, I'd do it for free, too!)

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Five foundations of morality

Five dimensions of morality

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I was reading an article recently that talked about the reasons that liberals and conservatives can’t talk to each other, don’t understand another, and refuse to acknowledge one another. It was, for these times anyway, pretty standard political stuff. But one thing that caught my attention is tha…

Haidt, J., & Graham, J. (2007). When morality opposes justice: Conservatives have moral intuitions that liberals may not recognize. Social Justice Research, 20, p. 98-116

Worthwhile read to fully understand the theory, but the gist of the article states that when taking into account harm, fairness, loyalty, authority, and purity as five aspects of how a person perceives their own sense of morality, the bridge between liberals and conservatives exist in that liberals place strong emphasis on the first two, while conservatives tend to value all five (although, personally, I think some of them emphasize the last two more).

These were my results:

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I think this explains much on why many who are very liberal or very conservative in turn often get very confused when I discuss my perspective with them, and why I usually become estranged from both sorts of people.  I wish that they had separated loyalty to individual and loyalty to a group– Loyalty, in this test, refers more to the loyalty of a group, especially country, religious affliations, social institutions, etc. that would be more identifiable to conservatives.  So if anything, my Loyalty score says, in my estimation, that I value loyalty to individuals more than I value loyalty to groups.

Gee, any surprise that I don't affiliate myself to a political party?

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