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If I wanted lots of people to do something, anything, in any field, I might consider paying Lindsay Lohan a shedload of money to loudly advocate for doing the exact opposite. Am I reading too much into this?

The one on conservatives, liberals, and the 'five moral instincts' is a little weird.

There is no problem in harm reduction and equity, but 'in-group loyalty', 'respecting authority', and 'purity' can be quite heavily corrupted, as we see in cases where, for example, religious people disown gay children or blindly follow leaders who preach ridiculous crap.

Especially 'purity'. That crap is just infantile.

By Katharine (not verified) on 07 Jul 2011 #permalink

re: Liberals and Conservatives

Gareth Cook seems to have read a different article than the one I read. Conservatives are not ambivalent about all five moral principles. They distinctly favor authority, purity and in group loyalty over avoiding harm and fairness. See Jonathan Haidt's article in Science http://www.sciencemag.org/content/316/5827/998.full or my take on it at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/05/31/341285/-The-Morality-Gap. Yes, fear is definitely a prominent characteristic of conservatives who are much more likely to be creeped out than liberals, but there is no evidence that conservatives are concerned with fairness or avoiding harm as far as I can tell. Do you have a citation?