The suggestion that some of Norwich’s homeless have made their own choice to live on the streets is often met with disbelief and derision. “Absolute rubbish” and a “bigoted horrible suggestion.” But the homeless I spoke to insisted the decision to sleep rough was largely made of their own volition.

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I see. So it's a self-righteous stunt, an exercise in moral superiority over the conservatives, to lay a guilt trip on them and denigrate their choices and opinions. I'm glad I don't have Jonathan Haidt's job, having to wade through the mental detritus of the average dysfunctional person, who no doubt make up the bulk of the applicants applying for his tests/experiments. I mean if someone asked me if I wanted to partake in a psychological test I'd tell them politely to fuckoff. What a waste of a day that would be. I could be out fishing, or anything!

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Haidt has done good work on the psychology of political persuasion. He's a self-described liberal who discovered some of the personality traits that correlate with political belief. One of the most telling discoveries was that conservatives tend to be curious about what liberals think and why, while liberals see conservatives as inferior "other," inherently incapable of thought.

Here's his TED talk on the moral roots of leftists and conservatives: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html

Short version, conservatives have five values while leftists have only one.

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Hmmm, interesting video. I would definitely fit the conservative mold, and certainly struggle against liberal attitudes, but I wonder what the purpose of the talk was, considering he's a liberal and that it was aimed at liberals? Is he truly independent in his science? As most scientists claim to be but aren't, because they are human. Was he was actually just explaining the facts and nothing more? The facts are true I would surmise and a good takeaway, but I wonder, considering his closing comments, if he wasn't trying to arm liberals so they could avoid getting caught in contentious arguments with the conservatives and instead focus solely on their objective, that of creating disunity, disorder and destroying social stability in their headlong rush to secure gay rights for sperm whales.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Another member of the Reddit Hate Brigade falsely pretending to be a conservative.

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Ahhh, a true liberal, thanks for the heads up.