Sana Khadar
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51 recordings
5 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard 14 Aug
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It's why arguments on social media on everything from your favorite celebrity to more significant issues like abortion can inspire such vitriol and rage.
And it goes some way to explaining what could possibly lead so many Republicans and Democrats to say the world would be better off if their political opponents were dead.
But if this is our evolutionary programming, then is there any hope of overcoming this pattern?
Well, Kurt thinks there is, and step one in that process is to acknowledge that harm, and a concern with preventing harm, is what all our arguments over moral issues, over what counts as right or wrong, boil down to.
That's what they're ultimately about.
But you might be wondering why that is step one.
And before I can explain that further, I need to actually backtrack on what I've just said.
Because this idea that harm is at the core of all our moral arguments is actually not what all psychologists who study morality think.
Allow me to detour for a moment into a somewhat academic but also relevant to our everyday lives debate.
You might recognize the name.
That's the guy who wrote The Anxious Generation and the book The Coddling of the American Mind.
Meaning they care not just about harm and fairness, but also things like loyalty and authority and purity.
Whereas progressives are primarily concerned with questions of harm and fairness.
And so does that have any effect day to day on our lives?
Or is this purely like an academic debate?
Mm-hmm.
You're listening to All in the Mind.
I'm Sana Khadar.
Kirk Gray is a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he's the author of Outraged, Why We Fight About Morality in Politics and How to Find Common Ground.
So, Kurt argues, and his research suggests, that everyone is ultimately worried about the same thing, harm.
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