The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
They tend to have more confidence than conservatives do in the power of human reason to find rational solutions to problems. Following in the footsteps of philosophers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke, they are motivated to keep rewriting the rules of society in order to keep improving it.
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
Liberals assume their own values are universal values, and then further assume that all they need to do is present the facts and offer policies that support these universal values. But values are not universal. Conservatives have a very different sense from liberals of what is moral, and a difference in fundamental morality is a deep difference.
George Lakoff • The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic
that fairness through blindness doesn’t work. That’s the most established and most robust fact in the entire research area.”39
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.