[MD] Tastey morality

[John Carl]

speaking of nipples, Ron...

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:14 PM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> and values are like nipples
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> everyone has them
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I'm on vacation, staying at my Aunt Kathy's house, midpoint on the Monterey
Bay and about 3 miles inland.  They have a big screen tv and they had some
sort of discovery channel show on this morning when I woke up about mammals.
 (I think it was called LIFE! the musical ) - and all kinds of neat
photography covering whales and meerkats and breeding  hyenas fighting off
lionesses.  The common reasons that these sort of animals with nipples
succeed so well, and dominate the reptiles, fishies and birds in the ways
that they do. And not too surprisingly, those "value receptors" mentioned in
Platt's article, correspond to most of the behaviors they showed on this
program.




> about the same intellectual content, only more economic
> in explanation.



yeah.. that is true.  But you're talking to a pretty sophisticated audience
here, and an explanation can be awfully economic and still cover a lot of
understanding.

Writing for a general audience means you have to explain everything from the
ground up.  To reach the level of people with the attention span only
necessary to fit between commercials.


And now, back to your regular programming,

John








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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "plattholden at gmail.com" <plattholden at gmail.com>
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Sent: Mon, August 2, 2010 5:01:26 PM
> Subject: [MD] Tastey morality
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> All:
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> Here's a new one for you -- morality is intuitive, like taste.
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> To quote from the article in question:
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> "The five most important taste receptors of the moral mind are the
> following .
> . . care/harm, fairness/cheating, group loyalty and betrayal, authority and
> subversion, sanctity and degradation. Moral systems are like cuisines that
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> constructed from local elements to please these receptors."
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> Is your curiosity aroused? If so, the full article (12 pages) is at:
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> http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/morality10/morality.haidt.html
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> Some further assumptions of the author:.
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> . "Morality" is limited to social behavior. (No moral order throughout the
> universe as Pirsig suggests.)
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> . The purpose of reason is to win arguments. It cannot independently seek
> out
> moral truth.
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> , By its very nature, morality binds us into groups, in order to compete
> with
> other groups. Nearly all of us doing this work are secular Liberals. And
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> means we are at very high risk of misunderstanding those moralities that
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> not our own -- like Conservatives.
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> Oh, by the way, the title of the article is, "The New Science of Morality."
> Trouble is, I found very little science in it.
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> Platt
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