[ExI] Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians

[Anders Sandberg]

On 02/09/2012 14:09, Dan Ust wrote:
> http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0042366
>
> Comments?

I am reminded of Tetlock's fun work on sacred vs. secular moral 
trade-offs (actually, it is cited in the study). Typically people find 
some values sacred, and get all annoyed when forcing to trading them off 
against non-sacred values. You are not supposed to put a monetary value 
on a human life, etc. One of his results was that these values track 
political views: liberals and conservatives have different sets of 
values, and this of course make their debates rather hot. And the 
libertarians tend to regard nearly any value as possible to trade in, 
except freedom:

http://scholar.harvard.edu/jenniferlerner/files/tetlock_2000_jpsp_paper.pdf

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University