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Haidt's Study Of Moral Combfounding

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Hello everyone! Honestly this has been my favorite discussion of ours thus far. I admit, I have extremely liberal views and socialist tendencies and when I’m confronted with someone on the opposite end of the spectrum I’m quick to assume the moral high ground. Being open minded is an extremely important part in making sure that you’re never going “too far” in your moral righteousness. An important part of that is not being afraid to be proven wrong. In Haidt’s study of people’s reaction to the incestual situation, people experienced the idea of “moral dumbfounding” (Sommers, pg. 156). They became silent because even when they were faced with the idea that they were wrong they said that they had nothing to back up their idea but that it was
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