What's a moral choice? Like, can briton in the fifties, or you mod or are you rocker? But to day, that just looks to us like silly convention. We understand it's mno pc versus mac. That's rl correct aso. What are the forces which determine what gets put into morality? And what get put into convention? Oh boy, that's a good question. A things that involve things that clearly involve harm, violations of rights. There 're certain things that are predisposed to be moralized. Because we're so tribal, we can moralize anything that gets as being predictive of what group you belong to or being
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on morality, politics, disgust, how to maintain free speech on campus, the enriching effects of LSD, antiparsimonialism, and why economists set all the interesting variables to zero.
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