The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion



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YIN: LIBERAL WISDOM

The left builds its moral matrix on three of the six foundations, but

it rests most  rmly and consistently on the Care foundation.

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might illustrate it as in 

gure 12.2

, where the thickness of each line

corresponds to the importance of each foundation.

Liberals are often suspicious of appeals to loyalty, authority, and

sanctity,  although  they  don’t  reject  these  intuitions  in  all  cases

(think of the sancti cation of nature), so I drew those lines as thin,

but still existing. Liberals have many speci c values, but I think it’s

helpful, for each group, to identify its most sacred value—the “third

rail”  that  will  get  you  electrocuted  if  you  touch  it.  For  American

liberals  since  the  1960s,  I  believe  that  the  most  sacred  value  is

caring for victims of oppression. 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.

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Our  ndings at 



YourMorals.org

 match up with philosophical and

popular  de nitions  of  liberalism  that  emphasize  care  for  the

vulnerable, opposition to hierarchy and oppression, and an interest

in  changing  laws,  traditions,  and  institutions  to  solve  social

problems.

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  The  liberal  radio  host  Garrison  Keillor  captured  the



spirit and self-image of the modern American left when he wrote:

I am a liberal, and liberalism is the politics of kindness.

Liberals  stand  for  tolerance,  magnanimity,  community

spirit, the defense of the weak against the powerful, love

of  learning,  freedom  of  belief,  art  and  poetry,  city  life,

the very things that make America worth dying for.

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I’m not sure how many Americans have sacri ced their lives for



kindness and poetry, but I believe this moral matrix leads liberals to


make two points consistently, points that I believe are essential for

the health of a society.




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