I would say you're the person who's done the most, in a good way, to improve the quality of that debate and make campus life more tolerant or more open. So let's take your vision of morality based on what you've called social intuitionism and this modularityw where things just just get triggered. Is it not the case where always either under shooting or over shooting the target that we can never hit it just right? Maybe for america to be more tolerant, you need the norms to be quite crude and blunt and overstated, and we get this political correctness. And yes, it's bad, but maybe it's less bad than when we used to under shoot the
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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