[ExI] Jonathan Haidt

Emlyn emlynoregan at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 04:10:43 UTC 2009


2009/4/20 Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com>:
> 2009/4/19 spike <spike66 at att.net>:
>> In very general in my view, the eastern traditionalist view ranks 3, 4 and 5
>> well above 1 and 2.  It looks to me as though it would make the eastern
>> traditionalist the moral counterpart of the western liberal, and would make
>> the western conservative into a moderate between the other two.  If that is
>> the case, then I am puzzled why there apparently is more enmity between the
>> western conservative and the eastern traditionalist than between the western
>> liberal and the eastern traditionalist.
>
>>
>> Why?  How?  Do explain, without using the names of any particular religion
>> or creed, but rather seeing this as a cultural and sociological phenom.
>>
>> spike
>>
>
> Straightforwardly, both Western Conservatives and Eastern
> Traditionalists rate 3 very highly, and neither are in each other's
> in-groups.

Something I forgot to add, a topical XKCD:

http://xkcd.com/569/

3 is great for games, sucks for rl.

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