Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind

AGAINST BRITISH VALUES: THE REVENGE OF THE RIGHTEOUS MIND

Maybe I don’t even belong to this nation (UK) any more ….  Because, no, I couldn’t whole-heartedly claim to endorse the priority apparently accorded to the ‘five fundamentals’ singled out by the English schools’ inspection body (OFSTED).  I hope that doesn’t make me a target for the attention of government ‘de-radicalization’ initiatives!   Just to remind you, those five values are: democracy; mutual respect; rule of law; individual liberty; toleration (of other beliefs).

These are no doubt all great things in themselves.  But one of them (democracy) is not a value, but a system of government.  The others might be described as ‘values’, I suppose.  But they wouldn’t figure at the top of my list.  I tend to think of a ‘value’ as something more like a virtue, or a moral quality.  And on that basis, most of these wouldn’t even qualify.  More than that, though, there’s something that irks me about this list and its claim to represent what is characteristically British.  The choice of these particular values strikes me as unbalanced and, frankly, partisan.

Do we have different moral values?

All this came back to me recently, as I read the book to which I am dedicating this blog: Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind.

Haidt claims that progressives and conservatives are distinguished by having somewhat different sets of moral values – a different ‘moral palate’, as it were. He also holds that a bit more empathy could help both sides appreciate their differences and restrain the growing incivility of political discourse in the US.    To this end he calls upon his own discipline of moral psychology.  The increasing divisiveness of political life is not a phenomenon unique to the US, even if it is particularly serious there.  Maybe this was reflected in my reaction to OFSTED’s five fundamentals.

But why ‘moral psychology’?  Well, according to Haidt (a moral psychologist), morals are essentially about intuitions or sentiments rather than rational discourse (an idea it gets off the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment thinker David Hume).  As a psychologist, he is persuaded, on the basis of experimental evidence, that there are about five or six kinds of moral intuitions, each having its separate origin in our inherited response to an evolutionary ‘trigger’.  These he compares to the five kinds of taste-bud: sweet, salt, bitter, etc..

The differences between one person and another, he argues, are partly the consequence of our diverse genetic inheritance, which causes some individuals to be more prone to one kind of moral intuition than to another.  (Like much else in psychology, this is apparently demonstrated by experiments on identical twins).  Politically ‘conservative’-leaning people (in the US generally Republicans) are driven by moral intuitions of all five kinds arising in relation to:  fairness, care for others, loyalty, authority, sanctity.  Progressives, on the other hand (who in the US tend to vote Democrat) are driven only by intuitions that relate to fairness and care for others.  There is a fundamental imbalance here.  When responses indicating these intuitions are plotted against politics (left/right) on a graph, the curves indicating the different intuitions show a bunching as we pass from left to right (showing that right-wingers recognize all five intuitions), and an increasing divergence as we pass from right to left between the curves representing ‘fairness’ and ‘care’, which rise slightly, and the curves representing ‘loyalty’, ‘authority’ and ‘sanctity’, which decline steeply (showing that left-wingers recognize only a relatively restricted number of intuitions).

Intriguingly, throughout the book, Haidt also brings his own life experience under the critical spotlight.  He began as a liberal (i.e. progressive) atheist, but, in the course of his researches (including field work in India) claims to have developed a sensibility for the moral ‘tastes’ that he lacked at the outset (though he appears, as far as I can tell, to have remained an atheist).

Let me begin by saying that, as a reader suspicious of ‘moral psychology’, I am much more interested in this story of attaining empathetic understanding through experience and introspection than I am in Haidt’s experimental attempts at anchoring this understanding in a moral theory, given that theory strikes me as hardly worthy of scientific investigation in the first place.  So, let’s park, for a moment, the theory of moral intuition.  And let’s concentrate on Haidt’s perception of those fundamental moral differences between people which he visualizes so helpfully in the graph mentioned above.  After all, his primary ‘finding’ is one that could no doubt have arisen from his personal and ethnographic experience alone: namely, that of an imbalance – an asymmetry – between the left and the right side of graph suggesting that progressives have a narrower moral palate.  Could that really be true?

Or is it, rather, that people are more keenly aware of the values that come less naturally to them, and with which they must struggle to empathize, while tending to overlook those which by dint of familiarity are, as it were, hidden in plain sight?  I further reflected that my own naturally allegiances and my own attempts to empathize presented almost a reverse-image of Haidt’s.  I was a non-liberal Christian seeking to understand secular liberalism, rather as he was a liberal atheist reaching out to conservatives.  So, maybe I was better placed than Haidt by virtue of my own cultural bias to picking up on values distinctive of liberalism?  Perhaps I could detect a few concealed virtues on the left side of the graph, and so re-equilibrate its disconcerting asymmetry?  If so, I had no doubt it would be easy enough to dream up an evolutionary trigger or two to justify their definition as moral intuitions in the eyes of a ‘moral psychologist’!

So, I started to think about it.  And – you guessed! – that was when I remembered those ‘British values’ that OFSTED seemed so keen on.  ‘Tolerance’ or ‘respect’, for example, struck me as a very plausible candidate to be a distinctive moral intuition of the left.  As I reflected on this, I was tempted to include a more extreme progressive notion which even the OFSTED list does not include: namely, ‘diversity’.  That would surely produce a balancing downward curve from the left to the right side of the graph!

My hesitation here had to do with whether these things (tolerance and diversity) were really ‘values’ at all – let alone ‘moral intuitions’.  The answer, I felt was (as I shall explain in a moment): yes and no.

How about a non-evolutionary moral trigger?

Come to think of it, however, there is no surprise that these do not figure amongst Haidt’s moral intuitions.  His moral theory requires that ‘moral intuitions’ be genetically inheritable and originate with an identifiable evolutionary trigger.  The trigger for tolerance and diversity could hardly have been an evolutionary one, as, prior to the development of the first genuinely pluralistic societies about three hundred years ago, it is hard to imagine such values could have had much place.  Haidt is a great believer in ‘group evolution’, and believes that great evolutionary strides could have been made in a shorter timespan than has generally been thought possible.  But three hundred years is cutting things a bit fine – even for Haidt!

But what kind of ‘trigger’ could this have been, if not an evolutionary one?

I could do worse at this point than to cite a passage from a history book which struck me from the moment I read it as the most perfect illustration of the kind of radical socio-political development that partially transformed the fundamental virtues Haidt seems to be talking about – and established the basis for the eventual emergence of one or two new ones (e.g. tolerance and diversity).

The writer and journalist, Jonathan Swift is commenting, very unfavourably (and as a dyed-in-the-wool conservative), on the new kind of values associated with the rise of first genuinely ‘pluralistic’ society in England at the beginning of the 18th century under the party of the ‘Whigs’.

‘As to religion their universal, undisputed maxim (that of the Whigs) is that it (Parliament) ought to make no distinction at all among Protestants.   ….  Union in discipline and doctrine, the offensive sin of schism, the notion of a Church and hierarchy, they laugh at as foppery, cant and priestcraft.  They see no necessity at all that there should be a national faith; and what we usually call by that name, they only style the “religion of the magistrate”.’ (My italics).

One needs to hear Swift’s tone of indignation here at the first emergence of a new political reality that most of us nowadays take for granted.  Note Swift’s evident presumption that the political order is upheld – and can only be upheld – by a unity of national values (union in discipline and doctrine).  Indeed, from his perspective, anyone not bowing to this self-evident truth is in thrall to what he calls the ‘monied interest’.  He leaves us in little doubt that, in his eyes, the only alternative to union at the level of belief, was a domination by a corrupt cabal of the wealthy up-starts cemented by ambition and greed (no doubt a pretty fair description of the Whig supremacy of the next generation).

Virtues and anti-virtues

Today’s progressives, I would argue, are the direct spiritual descendants of these Whigs.  Of course, ‘tolerance’ in the age of Swift would tend to mean strictly that – toleration and no more.  But one can see how, with time, a future generation would come to make a virtue of this particular necessity, where it suited their interests to do so, thereby bringing about the birth of a subtly different notion of toleration and respect – one that signified a positive appreciation of difference rather than just an acquiescence in a new pluralist reality that it was futile to resist.  One already sees hints of this kind of thing in Voltaire.  And we see its full flowering in the characterization of ‘British values’ that we find in the OFSTED list.  (Incidentally, I wonder what Jonathan Swift would have thought of OFSTED’s five fundamentals?)

Actually, the difference between tolerance and tolerance is too easily obliterated.  I can remember struggling to explain to one of my children that while I may ‘tolerate’ other the beliefs of certain of my fellow citizens (e.g. atheist humanism) – in the sense that I do not believe that adherence to them should bring social or political disabilities or even discrimination, this absolutely does not commit me to respecting those beliefs.  In a crucial sense, I absolutely refuse to respect atheist humanism!  But the distinction between toleration and respect is obscured rather than clarified by OFSTED’s fundamental values, which persistently nudge us, and our children, in the direction of a progressive agenda.  This is the kind of thing, I suspect, that enrages Haidt’s Republicans!  And I sympathize.

The current moral divisions are not best characterized in terms of our differential possession of five or six genetically determined centres of moral intuition.  Rather, what we actually observe is the following.  On the one hand, the same old traditional virtues that Swift, or Plato, would have recognized including loyalty, fairness, kindness, authority and sanctity – but all linked into an inseparable whole (since virtue is ultimately one and relates to the exigencies of the socio-political life of most traditional communities).  On the other hand, some new anti-virtues that result from making the best of necessities implicit in our pluralist co-existence as ‘members’ of a kind of anti-community (i.e. the state) unknown to our distant ancestors.  The virtues continue to be required for the life of social groups that persist under the umbrella of the state.  The anti-virtues answer to the need for all those groups to co-exist.  In the early days of Swift, when tolerance largely meant ‘simply’ toleration, no doubt the only conceivable basis of co-existence would have been the morally unprincipled domination of power and money (the ‘monied interest’).  Since then, peaceful co-existence has developed its own positive ideological paradigm.

In its more extreme form, it has always, in my eyes, found its ultimate emblematic expression in the rainbow flag that one sees brandished at Gay Pride events and SJW demonstrations of one kind or another.  Here individual self-realization becomes a holistic (i.e. religious) goal requiring the subordination of all collectivist impulses, and the socio-political face of that is the cultivation of diversity as an intrinsic moral good.  You do not have to practice this secularist religion to remain with the boundaries of democracy, mutual respect, rule of law, individual liberty, tolerance.  But it helps.

So, we come, at last, to the angle of religion.

Where does religion come into all this? 

Haidt’s aim in this book is to encourage civility in public discourse.  (And, in this, he comes across as entirely sincere.)  His attitude could be summed up: ‘We’re not here on this earth for very long, so why can’t we just get along?’  His moral psychology approach leads him to view the current conflict as largely a matter of different moral sensibilities.  The solution, for him, is, as it were, to become more empathetic and balance the ‘yin’ and ‘yang’ of our moral debates more harmoniously.

What Haidt doesn’t seem to ‘get’ is religion – a perspective which, I suspect, remains unattainable so long as one remains attached to the Humean theory of virtues as moral sentiments.  As a result, he completely underestimates the stakes of the political argument.  Religious views, I would argue, are morally, holistic, like the traditional moral climate that Swift harks back to in his critique of Whiggery.  Pluralism creates an intolerable, and incurable, breach in the religious worldview, which is only exacerbated when pluralism begins to develop a kind of anti-religion of its own based on radical individualism.  This leaves today’s citizens, in the US and Europe, with three choices.  Either, to opt for a viable holistic (i.e. religious) worldview based on individualism and diversity.  Or to stick with the holistic worldview of their elders, as generally embodied (at least, in the West) in the Christian aspiration to make disciples of all nations – i.e. a community that expands to unify the world.  Or to float around somewhat inconsistently in a world without holism and religion, trying to balance the yin and yang of our moral sentiments without much sense of a blueprint that could make sense of our collective lives.

I suspect Haidt is in the third category.  As a result, he is naturally happy enough to acquiesce in the idea that we can all get along nicely with a bit more this and a little bit less of that.  Because the focus of moral psychology is on sentiments not projects, on channelling instincts not moral maps, he doesn’t appreciate that for many caught up in the debate, it’s about a life-and-death struggle for a holistic narrative.  Because such a narrative can only be holistic, politics, for religious people (Christian and secular individualist), is never about a bit more of this and a bit less of that – or at least not when the plausibility of that holistic narrative itself appears threatened.  And, frankly, there’s no escaping the fact that the narrative of virtue is threatened by the narrative of anti-virtue, and vice versa.  There are those on both the progressive and conservative side who are probably are right to see themselves as locked in a life and death struggle.

Naturally, for those content to live without holistic narratives and without ultimate purpose this can seem as hard to understand, as it evidently was for David Hume.

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    A SERM like Nolvadex might help management gyno, however aromatase inhibitors are ineffective with Anadrol. For most Anadrol customers, the looks of gyno is not as pronounced because the water retention this steroid notoriously causes. Nevertheless, water retention and high blood pressure points do not always cause the most bother for some Anadrol users. Many adverse reviews concentrate on side effects that aren’t often talked about and aren’t universal (in different words, it could be a foul particular person reaction).
    Other bodybuilding supplements are more appropriate for cutting purposes than Anadrole. Anadrole is a formula that covers each aspect of bodybuilding and promotes muscle development, power features, stamina, and improved recovery. It is helpful for any function and objective as it excels in multiple areas, from muscle and energy gains to boosting efficiency to enhancing recovery. With scientific research sometimes using doses of 150mg per day or much more, we all know it’s attainable to use Anadrol at these dosage levels.
    People buy Oxymetholone, which is anabsurdly highly effective anabolic steroid for various reasons. Although it’s morepopular as oral pills to get the most out of it injectable ones are better andconsiderably faster than their counter parts. Solely a handful of steroids havebeen topped for pure bulking and Anadrol comes first in the listing. It perfectsthe No.1 steroid for pure bulking packing huge muscle mass and power in amatter of weeks however you could additionally like Anadrol for its other advantages.

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  8. This signifies that Trenbolone Acetate has the potential to enhance the
    body’s anabolic/catabolic stability. Trenbolone has been shown in both
    human and animal research to extend muscle fiber cross-sectional space.
    Though the mechanisms underlying this action are not absolutely understood, trenbolone is
    predicted to stimulate muscle improvement by increasing
    muscle protein synthesis. As a outcome, trenbolone could
    additionally be thought-about a wonderful muscle builder for
    these looking to bulk up.
    This is attributed to the excessive focus of androgen receptors in these areas, which finally ends up in pronounced development when influenced by anabolic-androgenic
    steroids. At health conventions, I often observe men with shoulders that seem almost unnaturally squared.
    This is in stark distinction to the physiques of most natural bodybuilders I’ve encountered, including
    some of my most accomplished clients. If you’ve your eyes on steroids –
    I’d highly advise you to consider the legal, safer,
    and more healthy choices we listed above. Pure bodybuilding vs steroids is a choice for each individual, but the overall themes are important.
    Steroids may cause a selection of unwanted facet effects, starting from mild (acne,
    headaches) to extreme (heart attacks, liver damage). You also can’t be big
    and shredded without steroids – there’s an old saying
    that you must choose two from massive, lean, and pure.

    Ensure that you’re trying at the right kinds of competition when looking at what are products
    that are consumed rapidly and regularly classified as?
    (abcdsofcooking.com) you wish to obtain. I have a sneaking suspicion that
    RFK Jr’s “testosterone replacement” regimen will be thought of cool even while he treats COVID-19 vaccines as a Pharma/tech
    business plot to enslave the world. With any luck, we’ll rule out the
    threat of him electing Trump, and we won’t need to hearken to his raspy rants about wi-fi and autism.

    The time period primarily refers to boys and males who’re dissatisfied with their appearance as a end result of they understand their muscular tissues as
    too small, no matter their size. Medical Doctors are nonetheless learning the
    complete results of HGH, however they believe its performance-enhancing properties can lead to body fats reduction and muscle constructing and
    recovery. Trenbolone and Testosterone are two of essentially the most in contrast steroids in history.

    Whereas there is no simple answer as to which steroid is
    better between the 2, it’s often thought of that in relation to muscle mass and energy,
    Trenbolone will outperform Testosterone.
    You usually tend to experience these unwanted effects if you
    are genetically predisposed to male sample baldness, acne, or aggression. Dr.
    O’Connor has over 20 years of experience treating men and women with a history of anabolic steroid, SARM,
    and PED use. He has been a board-certified MD since 2005 and provides steerage on hurt
    reduction methodologies. In our expertise, some users can take Cardarine, and
    their alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) scores elevate slightly after an 8-week
    cycle. In our experience, the endurance effects of Cardarine are partially short-term due to mitochondrial biogenesis.

    Most pure bodybuilders are clear, as they could have taken medicine and gone into the improved bodybuilding circuit – the place there’s more money and fame.
    These are only a few issues to look for, and it takes time and experience to identify who
    is natural and who isn’t. If it’s any comfort, you’ll
    solely ever be capable of say who is on steroids, as most of the most prolific customers (like long-distance cyclists) aren’t visibly
    in gear. The proven truth that this distinction exists at all should inform you that
    bodybuilding is replete with steroid users. The entire system is
    constructed on the unstated use of steroids, which implies that regular
    bodybuilding has a problem with expectations.

    I concern that even then, the ridiculous Gold’s Gym video
    of Bobby Kennedy’s son shall be an image we cannot erase from our minds, not solely
    because it’s so…yuck…but because it resonates so deeply in our coarsened culture.

    So perhaps the recognition Kennedy enjoys echoes Trumpian self-love and self-aggrandizement.
    If Trump is, to be charitable, The Music Man—a roguish con artist—RFK Jr.
    seems more like a cross between Conspiracy Concept and The Unimaginable
    Hulk, a steroid-addled kook. However despite Kennedy’s clarification of his dietary supplements,
    it’s not quite that easy. In 2021, it’s impossible to contemplate smoking without thinking about its connection to lung cancer.
    Drug training within the US has historically used concern to drive the point
    residence, but that may lead to skepticism when the fears are
    revealed to be exaggerated.
    Second, trenbolone can harden the muscle tissue higher than some other steroid.

    Lastly, trenbolone may be taken with out the concern of experiencing the widespread unwanted effects of different steroids.
    Because there are a quantity of Trenbolone variants that can be used in a cycle, the outcomes will
    range. To start, among the many benefits of a Trenbolone Acetate cycle are
    increased muscle mass, elevated power, improved recuperation, and
    elevated hunger. Trenbolone Enanthate cycle outcomes are regularly
    comparable, however some people have reported a rise in aggressiveness as a negative side effect, elevated libido, inhibition of pure testosterone
    production, and testicular atrophy. Since these sentinel articles, there
    was a rising physique of literature and
    debate in regards to the management of patients on chronic steroids who present
    for surgery. For instance, you should use the ultimate stack from Crazy Bulk to emulate
    a few of the muscle-gain advantages of steroids with out the well being dangers.

    His repeated assertion “I’m not here to speak about the past,”[27]
    grew to become the most highlighted moment of the proceedings.
    We’ve compiled the knowledge and experience of ourentire
    group to create these 3 Free E-books that will helpyou lose fat
    and re-build your body from the bottom up. In Accordance to evidence-based research, surveys in the American area point out that
    drug or steroid use amongst neighborhood weight trainers
    attending gyms and well being clubs is 15%-30%. However, when you discover somebody who
    constantly walks around with dry muscular tissues and eye-popping
    veins well-after this era, they’re most likely on steroids.
    The greatest advice for steroid users would be to keep their mouths
    moist and well-hydrated all through the day. Steroids can result in an enlargement of sebaceous glands, which will increase the production of sebum (body oil).

  9. Subsequent, we’ll dig into how these steroid injections work to relieve pain and irritation.
    Think About the case of Jane, who suffered from severe
    shoulder pain due to tendonitis. Over-the-counter painkillers and bodily remedy provided little
    reduction. After receiving a corticosteroid injection, Jane skilled significant
    pain discount, permitting her to continue bodily remedy and
    ultimately regain full mobility. Corticosteroids
    are synthetic medication that mimic the hormone cortisol,
    which is of course produced by your adrenal glands. They work by calming down the immune system, decreasing inflammation, and easing pain.
    The whole process will take around 10 to fifteen minutes but it only takes a couple of minutes to inject the steroid
    shot. You can often head residence shortly after the procedure, nevertheless it’s a good suggestion to relaxation the treated space for a quantity of days afterward.
    If you have acquired a local anesthetic, you may need to organize transport house because numbness from the anesthetic could make it troublesome to drive.
    The downside to a cortisone shot is anabolic steroids illegal that
    whereas it’d assist relieve the pain, it doesn’t eliminate the problem
    that triggered it. Cortisone photographs aren’t bad for
    you, but you must only get them once in a while as
    a result of there could be serious unwanted effects. If you
    notice ache, redness, swelling, or signs of an an infection after two days, name your physician. Cortisone shots can cost
    between $100 and $300 for the injection itself should
    you don’t have insurance.
    For occasion, a affected person with a severe asthma attack may receive
    an intravenous injection to quickly cut back inflammation and improve breathing.
    Hydrocortisone injections are typically fast-acting, offering reduction within a number of hours to a couple days.

    They are sometimes used for temporary aid and are perfect for flare-ups of chronic
    conditions. Steroid injections is usually a game-changer for people battling chronic
    pain and inflammation. They provide a focused approach to managing
    symptoms, making on an everyday basis actions extra manageable.
    Every kind of injection has its unique utility and advantages,
    making them versatile tools in managing continual pain and
    inflammation. It is essential to all the time tell your physician, pharmacist, or health care supplier about all prescription and over-the-counter medicines
    you utilize, in addition to the dosage for every, and keep a listing of the knowledge.

    Corticosteroids can provide substantial reduction of symptoms,
    but come with the danger of great unwanted effects, especially if used long term.
    You may expertise unwanted aspect effects, although severe unwanted aspect effects rarely
    occur. Make positive your doctor knows about any
    current steroid injections you’ve had.
    The Nationwide Institutes of Health notes that the overall
    guideline is to restrict spinal injections to not more than 3–4 per yr.
    Oral and injectable steroids share some widespread side effects,
    similar to insomnia. Most potential side effects of steroids are
    particular to the kind of treatment used.
    Anabolic steroids act similarly to the pure hormone
    testosterone, which plays an important role in the growth of muscle tissue and strength.

    Those are far from the only roles of testosterone,
    however they’re the primary ones that appeal to bodybuilders and athletes to
    anabolic steroid use12. Again pain can restrict
    your mobility and diminish your quality of life.
    Nonetheless, some types of accidents and illnesses cause longer-lasting or
    chronic irritation, which might mean ongoing ache.

    This stack is also tailor-made for intermediate steroid users, with higher testosterone dosages being utilized.
    All of these compounds have vital fat-burning properties with none notable levels of
    aromatization, thus enhancing muscle definition and vascularity.
    Trenbolone, Winstrol Depot, Primobolan, and Masteron are
    the best injectable steroids for cutting, in our expertise.

    These subcutaneous medications embody atezolizumab and hyaluronidase-tqjs (Tecentriq Hybreza) and nivolumab hyaluronidase-nvhy
    (Opdivo Qvantig). Corticosteroids, typically
    merely referred to as steroids, are natural hormones and hormone-like medicines which might be useful within the
    therapy of many forms of most cancers, in addition to
    other diseases. When used as a half of most cancers remedy, they’re
    thought of chemo.
    Talk to your doctor about potential treatment plans when you’re nervous
    about misusing steroids. The main outcome—the proportion of patients with resolution of symptoms at 24 hours—was not discovered to be completely different between treatment
    groups. Thus, steroid use for adults with delicate to reasonable
    pharyngitis is not supported by evidence.

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