Yup, define..
Disgustingness = Authority / Fairness
..and that's my point. That said, there are plenty of liberals who favor their
own circle of friends and have their own echo chambers. The fear of loss of
order mentioned in that article is pretty much one-to-one with authority.
Bill Barr doesn't care about families without fathers, or other elements of
social conservatism, it is just hot air in service of having men like him in
positions of power. Perhaps with suitable units, this would all be
tautological from dimensional analysis!
Marcus
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From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Steven A Smith
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Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2020 12:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] on stupidity
Marcus -
< I tend to agree with your intuition that something that seems
egregiously "stupid" might well simply be registered in a different
basis space... or more aptly "a different value system". >
Indeed, like a provincial value system. One that optimizes for local
interests in ignorance or indifference to interests of anyone else. Even if
the magnitude of their eigenvalue is tiny by comparison.
I think I am arguing for recognizing parochial (qualitative) as well as
provincial (quantitative) scoping errors.
[cid:part1.435DB8F8.AA6FFAD5@swcp.com]
This
article<http://www.ethicsdefined.org/the-problem-with-morality/conservatives-vs-liberals/>
is not the precise argument I am looking for, but it does generally reflect
one that I encountered a few years ago which I think suggested that not only do
Conservatives hold Authority/Ingroup/Purity *higher* than Fairness and a very
close 2nd,3rd,4th to Harm, but that they tend to experience
Authority/Ingroup/Purity as something more like Loyalty/Honor. Both this
article and the line of argument I can't precisely remember/find seemed to
suggest that Liberals ethics were *simpler* than Conservatives which I think
is vaguely specious?
[http://www.ethicsdefined.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Lib_VS_Cons.png]<http://www.ethicsdefined.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Lib_VS_Cons.png>
http://www.ethicsdefined.org/the-problem-with-morality/conservatives-vs-liberals/
- Steve
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