Marcus - > < I tend to agree with your intuition that something that seems > egregiously "stupid" might well simply be registered in a different > basis space... or more aptly "a different value system". > > > Indeed, like a provincial value system. One that optimizes for local > interests in ignorance or indifference to interests of anyone else. Even if > the magnitude of their eigenvalue is tiny by comparison.
I think I am arguing for recognizing /parochial/ (qualitative) as well as /provincial (quantitative) /scoping errors. This article <http://www.ethicsdefined.org/the-problem-with-morality/conservatives-vs-liberals/> is not the precise argument I am looking for, but it does generally reflect one that I encountered a few years ago which I think suggested that not only do Conservatives hold Authority/Ingroup/Purity *higher* than Fairness and a very close 2nd,3rd,4th to Harm, but that they tend to experience Authority/Ingroup/Purity as something more like Loyalty/Honor. Both this article and the line of argument I can't precisely remember/find seemed to suggest that Liberals ethics were *simpler* than Conservatives which I think is vaguely specious? <http://www.ethicsdefined.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Lib_VS_Cons.png> http://www.ethicsdefined.org/the-problem-with-morality/conservatives-vs-liberals/ - Steve
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