The psychologist Jon Haidt proposed five evolved capacities, cach…

The psychologist Jon Haidt proposed five evolved capacities, cach like a taste bud: a sensitivity to harm, reciprocity, hierarchy, group, and purity. He suggests the mind is prepared to attach moral sentiments to all or several of these, depending on the culture in which it develops. Let me connect the taste buds with the three roots. In a society with an individualistic ethic, only the first rwo buds are activated: to protect people from harm, and to uphold individual rights by insisting on fairness and reciprocity. According to this ethic, the right to abortion or to free speech and the rejection of torture are moral issues. Western moral psychology has been imprinted with this focus on the individual, so that from its perspective, moral feelings are about personal autonomy.

— from True North (Ethics, Integrity, Truth, Values) · Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer

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