One discovery is that conservatives are moral in many ways that liberals are not and do not understand. This leads to the situation that conservatives understand morality better than liberals do, and furthermore, that they understand liberals better than liberals understand them.
Because my intent is to address liberals , I will not try to prove this here because the liberal mind is supposed to be amenable to scientific reasoning and the research is out there. Anybody who has doubts about this can check out the work of Jonathan Haidt.
His work shows that Republicans win elections, not because they appeal to rubs who are easily manipulated, but because they appeal to moral convictions instinctively that liberals don't understand. People vote conservative because conservative moral values are human and natural.
And conservatives can reason, they just do so like a lawyer in defense of their values which can include the following: care, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority and sanctity as well as divinity, community, hierarchy, tradition, sin and degradation.
As Haidt points out, "Liberals don’t understand conservative values. And they can’t recognize this failing, because they’re so convinced of their rationality, open-mindedness and enlightenment."
This the above, is what I call the liberal brain defect, the focus solely on the injustice and inequality that conservative moral values will tolerate to support their other moral ideals, that reason and rational argument can bring them to concede when their actual reaction is that liberals, unable to appreciate the moral valuse being defended, are evil.
I recently described the LBD vs the CBD as taking a hammer to your thumb.
Now what you get when you try to pursuade people to abandon some moral belief, say by making some form of moral action illegal, take abortion as one case, is the sense of persecution.
In another thread recently I suggested to a conservative, who was rationalizing in favor of his moral belief, that he would not be able to see the irrationality of his thinking unless he let go and died. Now I had already and have often in the past, used this idea of spiritual awakening as the product of ego death, but this person had his ego aroused and needed and therefore wanted to see my words literally, that he was of such importance or such a threat to me that I would wish him harm, and this after a rather extensive explanation that I had the best wishes for him.
Having slept of this event an image arose in my mind that we have a real world analogy of the CBD in action in primates, the fact that you can capture monkeys by putting food in a bottle, which when they take hold of it they can't remove their hand. No amount of reasoning in the world will convince that monkey to let go, to die to appetite sufficiently so he can live.
What liberals need to do, then, in my opinion, is to focus more on how to relax the conservative hand, because the assault of reason on the moral beliefs of conservatives by liberals just makes their grip tighten and their minds fabricate a greater level of threat.
If we are so smart, maybe we can turn our attention to that.
How can Sambo turn tigers into butter?
Because my intent is to address liberals , I will not try to prove this here because the liberal mind is supposed to be amenable to scientific reasoning and the research is out there. Anybody who has doubts about this can check out the work of Jonathan Haidt.
His work shows that Republicans win elections, not because they appeal to rubs who are easily manipulated, but because they appeal to moral convictions instinctively that liberals don't understand. People vote conservative because conservative moral values are human and natural.
And conservatives can reason, they just do so like a lawyer in defense of their values which can include the following: care, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority and sanctity as well as divinity, community, hierarchy, tradition, sin and degradation.
As Haidt points out, "Liberals don’t understand conservative values. And they can’t recognize this failing, because they’re so convinced of their rationality, open-mindedness and enlightenment."
This the above, is what I call the liberal brain defect, the focus solely on the injustice and inequality that conservative moral values will tolerate to support their other moral ideals, that reason and rational argument can bring them to concede when their actual reaction is that liberals, unable to appreciate the moral valuse being defended, are evil.
I recently described the LBD vs the CBD as taking a hammer to your thumb.
Now what you get when you try to pursuade people to abandon some moral belief, say by making some form of moral action illegal, take abortion as one case, is the sense of persecution.
In another thread recently I suggested to a conservative, who was rationalizing in favor of his moral belief, that he would not be able to see the irrationality of his thinking unless he let go and died. Now I had already and have often in the past, used this idea of spiritual awakening as the product of ego death, but this person had his ego aroused and needed and therefore wanted to see my words literally, that he was of such importance or such a threat to me that I would wish him harm, and this after a rather extensive explanation that I had the best wishes for him.
Having slept of this event an image arose in my mind that we have a real world analogy of the CBD in action in primates, the fact that you can capture monkeys by putting food in a bottle, which when they take hold of it they can't remove their hand. No amount of reasoning in the world will convince that monkey to let go, to die to appetite sufficiently so he can live.
What liberals need to do, then, in my opinion, is to focus more on how to relax the conservative hand, because the assault of reason on the moral beliefs of conservatives by liberals just makes their grip tighten and their minds fabricate a greater level of threat.
If we are so smart, maybe we can turn our attention to that.
How can Sambo turn tigers into butter?
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