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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.
- Jonathan Haidt
#Compete
#Moral
#Order
#Sense
#Together
Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.
- Jonathan Haidt
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#Nature
#Other
#Out
#Social
We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.
- Jonathan Haidt
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#Different
#Good
#Lines
#Way
Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.
- Jonathan Haidt
#Economic
#Just
#Moral
#Much
#Social
People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.
- Jonathan Haidt
#Country
#Live
#People
#Voting
#Want
Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility.
- Jonathan Haidt
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#Love
#Mean
#More
#Others
Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.
- Jonathan Haidt
#Expectations
#Live
#Sharing
#Someone
#Up
I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
- Jonathan Haidt
#Authority
#Maintenance
#Never
#Purity
Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.
- Jonathan Haidt
#Blind
#Complicated
#Reality
#Social
If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.
- Jonathan Haidt
#Feelings
#Finding
#Good
#High
#Support
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
- Jonathan Haidt
#Blind
#Go
#Morality
#Reality
#Us
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.
- Jonathan Haidt
#Achieve
#Easy
#Great
#Lose
#Precious
People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.
- Jonathan Haidt
#Believe
#Change
#Focus
#Long
#Political
When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that's fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.
- Jonathan Haidt
#Policy
#Positive
#Stand Up
#Stand
#Start
I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.
- Jonathan Haidt
#Equality
#Power Corrupts
#Power
#Stress
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.
- Jonathan Haidt
#Heroism
#Morality
#People
#Politics
#War
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.
- Jonathan Haidt
#Construction
#Force
#Human
#Powerful
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