Progressives tend to be motivated by both the ‘Care/Harm’ and ‘Fairness/Cheating’ foundations.
EAs tend to be motivated almost exclusively by the ‘Care/Harm’ foundation, or at least by philosophical views that rationalize ‘Care/Harm’ intuitions but often recommend to disregard ‘Fairness/Cheating’ intuitions in a way that seems objectionable to progressives.
I don’t know much about how solid moral foundations theory is, and haven’t thought much about how plausible I find this explanation or how much of the effect I’d guess it explains.
I honestly think that the progressive movement increasingly values Loyalty (i.e. you’re not a real minority if you’re politically conservative) and Sanctity ( saying the N-word or wearing blackface make white people “unclean” in a way that cannot fully be explained by the Care/Harm framework), so if anything I think Haidt’s Moral Foundations theory is more right than even Haidt suspected, the taboos and tribes of the Left are simply still being defined.
Interesting, yeah. That sounds at least partly right to me, though I don’t know enough about moral foundations theory or current progressive discourse to have a strong take on how much I believe in this vs. other explanations for the observations you’ve described.
One explanation based on Haidt’s Moral foundations theory would be:
Progressives tend to be motivated by both the ‘Care/Harm’ and ‘Fairness/Cheating’ foundations.
EAs tend to be motivated almost exclusively by the ‘Care/Harm’ foundation, or at least by philosophical views that rationalize ‘Care/Harm’ intuitions but often recommend to disregard ‘Fairness/Cheating’ intuitions in a way that seems objectionable to progressives.
I don’t know much about how solid moral foundations theory is, and haven’t thought much about how plausible I find this explanation or how much of the effect I’d guess it explains.
I honestly think that the progressive movement increasingly values Loyalty (i.e. you’re not a real minority if you’re politically conservative) and Sanctity ( saying the N-word or wearing blackface make white people “unclean” in a way that cannot fully be explained by the Care/Harm framework), so if anything I think Haidt’s Moral Foundations theory is more right than even Haidt suspected, the taboos and tribes of the Left are simply still being defined.
Interesting, yeah. That sounds at least partly right to me, though I don’t know enough about moral foundations theory or current progressive discourse to have a strong take on how much I believe in this vs. other explanations for the observations you’ve described.