Sio: We all have the same, let's call them six moral taste buds. The sixth one that didn't mention before is liberty versus oppression. People resent being forced or told what to do if they don't perceive it as legitimate. When you have a culture emerging, it's going to build on certain aspects of them, not others. If you're raisid in a desert, island with nobody, maybe you'd have them, but they wouldn't be developed.
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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