Our moral foundations - our evolved moral psychology. http://moralfoundations.org On a societal level our moral values have changed considerably. https://twitter.com/stephantaylor/status/968331872345374720 …
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Do you accept that our moral sense comes mostly from our evolved prefrontal cortex and is shared in part by other apes and certainly by all other humans? Then it is mediated through culture.
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Not at all. Genetics play a huge part in who we are. That isn't true. See stats in this essay: https://areomagazine.com/2017/02/15/the-problem-with-intersectional-feminism/ … And your parties haven't had the same policies for 200 years. More sense to look at conservatism & liberalism and we see much the same balance.
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And yet in those countries different parties get in. Values change. We're seeing a surge to the right at the moment.
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What we seem to be seeing is a re-definition of what "right" and "left" mean - or rather, a continuum of definitions, as those meanings are changing so frequently. Their relevance is in any case questionable in today's socio-political climate. There are more useful distinctions.
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