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Jonathan Haidt

American

October 19, 1963

Psychologist

The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.

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Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.

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Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.

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Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

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There's an enormous difference between voting for a candidate because you hate another ethnic group and voting for a candidate because he's a member of your ethnic group.

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It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.

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