I have relatively little exposure to Hickel, save for reading his guardian piece and a small part of the dialogue that followed from that, but I don’t get the impression he’s coming from a position of putting more weight on Sanctity/purity or Authority/respect; in general I’d guess that few people in left-wing social-science academia are big on those sorts of moral foundations, except indirectly via moral/cultural relativism.
Taking Haidt’s moral foundations theory as read for the moment, I’d guess that the Fairness foundation is doing a lot of the work in this disagreement. In general, leftists and liberals seem to differ a lot in what they consider culpable harm, and Fairness/exploitation seems like a big part of that.
I have relatively little exposure to Hickel, save for reading his guardian piece and a small part of the dialogue that followed from that, but I don’t get the impression he’s coming from a position of putting more weight on Sanctity/purity or Authority/respect; in general I’d guess that few people in left-wing social-science academia are big on those sorts of moral foundations, except indirectly via moral/cultural relativism.
Taking Haidt’s moral foundations theory as read for the moment, I’d guess that the Fairness foundation is doing a lot of the work in this disagreement. In general, leftists and liberals seem to differ a lot in what they consider culpable harm, and Fairness/exploitation seems like a big part of that.