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The Relationship Between Conservatives and Liberals
There's a tension in human discourse that seems to be key to the distinction between conservatives and liberals. Conservatives tend to be more disgust sensitive and they're more prone to react negatively to potentially contaminating effects of interpersonal interaction. The liberal types are, it's as if the liberals bet that the advantage to free exchange will outperform the disadvantage of contamination. Sometimes the conservatives are right and sometimes the liberals are right, right? It depends because the conservatives tends to be more correct when multiple epidemics are raging out of control.