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Not all of us can go to Africa, or work at hospitals, so what do we do, if we have this moral response, this feeling?

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary.

At this time, medieval books chronicling the adventures of knights and their moral code dominated European culture.

We see ourselves as a thinking, feeling and moral human race, but until we solve these problems for all of our members, we fail that standard, because every person on this planet matters.

Until every girl like this one has an opportunity to earn her full human potential, we have failed to become a truly moral and just human race.

Architecture and planning need to recapture some of the traditional values that did just that, creating the conditions for coexistence and peace, values of beauty that don't exhibit ostentation, but rather, approachability and ease, moral values that promote generosity and acceptance, architecture that is for everyone to enjoy, not just for the elite, just as used to be in the shadowed alleys of the old Islamic city, mixed designs that encourage a sense of community.

So for the last few years, I've been trying to understand what constitutes the 21st-century good life, both because I'm fascinated by the moral and philosophical implications, but also because I'm in desperate need of answers myself.

But we have to own up to our moral responsibility to judgment, and use algorithms within that framework, not as a means to abdicate and outsource our responsibilities to one another as human to human.

So, the moral being: don't piss off crows.

Whenever I look at any sort of social puzzle, I always apply the three basic principles of moral psychology, and I think they'll help us here.

CA: You're saying that people of reason, people who would consider themselves not racists, but moral, upstanding people, have a rationale that says humans are just too different; that we're in danger of overloading our sense of what humans are capable of, by mixing in people who are too different.

Those people aren't particularly racist when they feel as through there's not a threat to our social and moral order.

JH: The next principle of moral psychology is that intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

And now that it's become this great moral divide, there's a lot of evidence that we're moving to be near people who are like us politically.

But somebody in the next house from yours is living in a different moral matrix.

As you're thinking of the consequence of that, if you believe that extinctions are common and natural and normal and occur periodically, it becomes a moral imperative to diversify our species.

And it becomes a moral imperative because it's going to be really hard to live on Mars if we don't fundamentally modify the human body.

And if you don't care about them, you don't have to see yourself as having a moral obligation to think about the circumstances that shaped their lives.

And one of the first things that we discovered that I think is really helpful for understanding polarization is to understand that the political divide in our country is undergirded by a deeper moral divide.

And conservatives tend to endorse values like loyalty, patriotism, respect for authority and moral purity more than liberals do.

And Matt and I were thinking that maybe this moral divide might be helpful for understanding how it is that liberals and conservatives talk to one another and why they so often seem to talk past one another when they do.

And what we found was that liberals tended to make arguments in terms of the liberal moral values of equality and fairness.

Overall, we found that 69 percent of liberals invoked one of the more liberal moral values in constructing their essay, and only nine percent invoked one of the more conservative moral values, even though they were supposed to be trying to persuade conservatives.

And when we studied conservatives and had them make persuasive arguments in support of making English the official language of the US, a classically conservative political position, we found that they weren't much better at this. 59 percent of them made arguments in terms of one of the more conservative moral values, and just eight percent invoked a liberal moral value, even though they were supposed to be targeting liberals for persuasion.

People's moral values, they're their most deeply held beliefs.

Well, we believe it's a technique that we call moral reframing, and we've studied it in a series of experiments.

Another group of participants were assigned to read a really different essay that was designed to tap into the conservative value of moral purity.

Conservatives, however, were significantly more supportive of progressive environmental policies and environmental protection if they had read the moral purity essay than if they read one of the other two essays.

We even found that conservatives who read the moral purity essay were significantly more likely to say that they believed in global warming and were concerned about global warming, even though this essay didn't even mention global warming.

But that's how robust this moral reframing effect was.

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