Liberals value harm avoidance (harmlessness) and equality. Conservatives can agree that harmlessness and equality are good things, but also value loyalty, sanctity, and authority as complements. These are five moral foundations that Jonathan Haidt identifies as governing human action and nature. For a community to survive, especially amidst groups hostile to it, it has to…
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