Monday, September 15, 2008
The One Way Cave of Moral Blindness
"But Jonathan Haidt, an associate professor of moral psychology at the University of Virginia, argues in an essay this month, “What Makes People Vote Republican?”, that it’s liberals, in fact, who are dangerously blind.
Haidt has conducted research in which liberals and conservatives were asked to project themselves into the minds of their opponents and answer questions about their moral reasoning. Conservatives, he said, prove quite adept at thinking like liberals, but liberals are consistently incapable of understanding the conservative point of view. “Liberals feel contempt for the conservative moral view, and that is very, very angering. Republicans are good at exploiting that anger,” he told me in a phone interview.
Perhaps that’s why the conservatives can so successfully get under liberals’ skin. And why liberals need to start working harder."
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In regards to some other points made in this article: agreed that the Elite Left -- aka, "Stuff White People Like" -- need to stop with the Me-Me-Me entitlement, but so do these fucking Me-Me-Me CEOs throughout America, who get 7-figure annual bank-rolls, and then when they are fired, get 7-figure compensation packages. It's a group for and by the Establishment. They are riding on the backs of stock-holders, and investors, and people who actually work 70 hours a week on salary. And this is one Libertarian who's sick and tired of the shit, regardless of whether it happens in D.C., or on Wall Street.
I don't think the CEOs should be burnt in Effigy. They should be burnt. :)
By the way, methinks the Me Me Me CEOs are the sort of people who were all about Me Me Me entitlement at a younger age. The disconnect between pay/compensation and what a leader of a company provides went gaga about a quarter century ago.
And this is one "no longer really" Libertarian who's sick and tired of the shit.
[So, MFT, can we form a Party based on "Sick and Tired of This Fucking Shit"?]
45 million a year, and such bloody incompetence so well rewarded. Why, it's almost as good as being King. They even get to retire with head intact....
The pathetic thing this is all such basic, predictable economics. Live by a faddish boom, unlinked from economic performance, and you die by a bust as sure as the "South Sea Bubble"....Except we no longer hang the miscreants. Newton would know better.
Although I guess we are sorta off topic for this post. Let me start a new post for which this would be "on topic"
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