You apparently haven’t kept up with developments of the theory. You say:
Liberals are generally far more concerned about purity of environmental conditions than are conservatives. Food is a good example: filtered water, organic foods, avoidance of over-processing, and avoidance of synthetic ingredients in food are all very much liberal causes, ignored or even disparaged by conservatives.
You’re right, I hadn’t encountered any new items from Haidt since the “why do people vote Republican” piece in edge.
(Lest there be any misunderstanding: the number of follow-ups I would like to investigate seems to grow exponentially with each bit of investigating I actually do. Time is obviously not available to keep up with more than a tiny percentage of what I would like to keep up with.)
I’m glad to see he is at least acknowledging the existence of “liberal purity”—and even seems to realize that it exposes a weakness in his “Five Pillars” argument—but, as far as I can tell, he does absolutely nothing to address that weakness.
You apparently haven’t kept up with developments of the theory. You say:
Which Haidt has recently addressed specifically in a blog post entitled “In Search of Liberal Purity”.
You’re right, I hadn’t encountered any new items from Haidt since the “why do people vote Republican” piece in edge.
(Lest there be any misunderstanding: the number of follow-ups I would like to investigate seems to grow exponentially with each bit of investigating I actually do. Time is obviously not available to keep up with more than a tiny percentage of what I would like to keep up with.)
I’m glad to see he is at least acknowledging the existence of “liberal purity”—and even seems to realize that it exposes a weakness in his “Five Pillars” argument—but, as far as I can tell, he does absolutely nothing to address that weakness.