Recall, as uncovered by Jonathan Haidt in his research of the moral priorities of liberals and conservatives, that libs have a more constricted moral universe and are therefore less able to understand and empathize with conservative moral considerations. Conservatives in contrast have a broader and more soundly distributed moral spectrum of concerns that one might call “adult”, (as opposed to liberals’ “juvenile morality” that focuses almost solely on harm and fairness).
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Apparently, in the Mirror Universe, Chateau Heartiste is actually capable of using English. Still an idiot, though.
PS: I nominate this for the Mirror Universe Award .
A morality that focuses on harm and fairness sounds appropriate to me. That's more simple than the complex set of rules and shibboleths that the conservatives like, but certainly not more "juvenile". Conservative morality is like a complex child's game, where the rules are just the way the game is played ("you didn't say 'mother, may I' so you're out") but have no real meaning other than that.
Go fuck yourself you absolute wanker. I'm more juvenile because I believe everyone deserves a fair shake? What do you believe, then, that makes you the more mature one? That the world should revolve around you and people should bend over backwards to make you happy?
@Gabriel LaVedier
The original study and Haidt't work considered there to be 5 moral dimensions: care/harm, fairness/cheating, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and sanctity/degradation. The idea of liberals and conservatives varying on the weight of each axis isn't fundie (it actually strikes me as fairly explanatory as far as this sort of thing goes), but the out-of-hand assumption that a broader base of concerns is more adult/mature is. You can just as readily claim that liberals have their eyes on the moral ball while conservatives are distracted.
It's like the amygdala size study; there is a difference, but you can just as readily say conservatives' are too large as liberals' are too small.
It's worth noting that this moral dimension theory floats around the alt-right quite a bit, and Heartiste himself seems to really hammer on the disgust (sanctity/degradation) dimension a lot as a moral guidance shitlibs lack.
So any morality system in your eyes that isn't entirely dependent on a hovering threat of retaliation is "childish" for not trying to stack the deck in your favour with a system that absolutely requires a subservient underclass that puts up with a suckers game their entire lives and pray the suckers are the ones who take the intelligent path instead of just bum rushing you and kicking your teeth in because you think humanity is less organized than squabbling gorillas.
So "mob rule" and hoping really hard you're the only one who realizes it's mob rule and everyone else is just too polite to raise a fuss is the "adult" option, yeah? That is loco. That literally requires people to stop thinking like human beings with any concern for their own survival. Hell not an animal takes that kind of abuse forever. It isn't "moral" to you at all you just think you'd get away with it because you're convinced you're the only ones smart enough to realize you're the savages you'd like us think everyone else is. But is again very much dependent on their docility when you try to tip the balance.
What about socialists, Chum Hog? What about environmentalists, anarchists, libertarians? The world is not made up of only conservatives and liberals, dearie.
Really? Because the morality often displayed by you and yours is often based on avoiding punishment (often exclusively). Which is the most juvenile form of morality.
Either that, or you're saying your morality is more flexible, in which case let the laughter commence.
Meanwhile... actual science posits the five factor model of personality where one trait, "Openness to experience" strongly correlates with the political spectrum. People on one end of the scale are more open to new experiences while people on the other end of the scale are practical down to earth types. Liberals tend to be more open, while conservatives tend to be more "by the book" so to speak.
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