Hi - I'm reading "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst" by Robert M. Sapolsky and wanted to share this quote with you.
"For each side, perceiving themselves as having a "right" to do things their way mostly means that they have slathered enough post-hoc, Haidtian rationalizations on a shapeless, self-serving, parochial moral intuition; have lined up enough of their gray-bearded philosopher-king shepherds to proclaim the moral force of their stance; feel in the most sincere, pained way that the very essence of what they value and who they are is at stake, that the very moral rightness of the universe is wobbling; all of that so strongly that they can't recognize the "right" for what it is, namely "I can't tell you why, but this is how things should be done." To cite a quote attributed to Oscar Wilde, "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.""
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