[MD] Tastey morality

[david buchanan]

There is a Ted Talk by Haidt that will give you the basic ideas. He uses the five categories to get at the differences between liberals and conservatives. As you'll see, conservatives are most interested in loyalty, authority and sanctity than their liberal counterparts. I think it's pretty easy to see how these three categories translate into an emphasis on social level values. By contrast, liberals are almost exclusively interested in care and fairness. 
http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html

> From: plattholden at gmail.com
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:01:26 -0400
> Subject: [MD] Tastey morality
> 
> All:
> 
> Here's a new one for you -- morality is intuitive, like taste.
> 
> To quote from the article in question:
> 
>  "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 are 
> constructed from local elements to please these receptors."
>