Morality is not universal – WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic) people are outliers
The foundations of morality are:
Care/harm
Left cares about those who cannot help themselves. Right cares about those who have sacrificed for the group (veterans)
Fairness/cheating
Equality (left) or proportionality (right)
Liberty/oppression
Loyalty/betrayal
Authority/subversion
Sanctity/degradation
The left relies on Care and Fairness. The right relies on all six.
Republicans speak more to the elephant
Morality binds and blinds
Evolution happens on the individual level, but perhaps also on the group level (increasing groupishness)
Humans are 90% chimp (individual) and 10% bee (group)
You can flip on the “hive” switch if conditions are right (choirs, awe in nature, psychedelics) and be “simply a part of the whole”.
Religious people are more generous/etc simply because they are a moral community – not related to specific beliefs
Liberals have a harder time understanding conservatives than the other way around, because loyalty, authority, and sanctity are so low (sometimes not even part of the equation)
Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second