Stephen Messenger certainly knows his moral foundations but I have always found his thesis that conservative morality is objectively superior because it draws on all moral foundations while liberals draw much more strongly on half somewhat akin to the naturalistic fallacy.https://twitter.com/AreoMagazine/status/1055897417839718401 …
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When it comes to those intuitions themselves tho, there are arguments to be made in favour of prioritising some over others, which ones & why. It is not a given that giving them all equal value is the way to maximise the best aspects of human morality in 21st century environments
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it could well be that the prioritising of care & reduction of harm foundation is actually more valuable than the sanctity/disgust foundation which seeks to avoid or ban things seen as disgusting even if that was very useful in preventing us from poisoning ourselves historically.
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