{"id":208,"date":"2017-01-05T08:29:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garykephart.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=208"},"modified":"2024-03-10T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T20:09:40","slug":"lets-talk-with-not-yell-at-each-other","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/garykephart.com\/wordpress\/lets-talk-with-not-yell-at-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s talk with, not yell at, each other"},"content":{"rendered":"

Politics evokes a lot of passion when voting and communicating, and that’s understandable. But that sometimes leads to us yelling at each other instead of talking with each other. I have found a way that I will be using to communicate with you, and I hope that you’ll use it when communicating with me.<\/p>\n

It’s called the Moral Foundation Theory and it defines a set of moral foundations, listed below. If you and I can frame our issues in these foundations, then maybe we still won’t agree, but we will understand each other, and that’s half the battle.<\/p>\n

For example, on gender identity, a conservative might claim that the definition of gender is sacred and that a man is a man and a woman is a woman while I would say that it is part of a person’s liberty to decide their gender.<\/p>\n

Another example might be that an oil corporation might want some land opened up for drilling because they want the liberty to pursue business, while I might say that the environment is sacred and should not be harmed by oil drilling.<\/p>\n

The Moral Foundations
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