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227 | Molly Crockett on the Psychology of Morality

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is This Illegitimate or Legitimate?

I think there is a backlash that comes from the speed because we are used to, you know, social or moral progress or change happening over a course of decades. And what we are seeing now is a much, much faster time scale. Some people who are just responding to this as if this is illegitimate. I identify more as a moral constructivist. So even though the wellspring of our morality is something built into us or learned at such a young age that we can't think about it, that doesn't stop us from being rational about it as we mature and hopefully think more wisely.

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