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To: Dracin72 who wrote (5411)	1/9/2017 3:36:14 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 356944

who determines what are universally accepted morals because culturally they can often be very different. It's not a rulebook but rather a framework. It doesn't pick behaviors. It just identifies categories. The categories are: care, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority, and sanctity. For example, whatever violates liberty is immoral. So if you're considering oppressing or confining anyone, tsk, tsk. It's general, cross-cultural. Different cultures might have different particulars about what constitutes care/harm. Different cultures definitely have different ideas about sanctity. Eat pork, beef, shellfish, meat on Friday, anything with a face, or anything not sustainable and you violate someone's sense of sanctity. It's helpful for something like abortion when people talk past each other to recognize that one guy is coming at it from the perspective of harm while another is talking about sanctity. They've done studies of US political cultures and how they differ wrt how much weight one group or the other puts on the various foundations. Progressives put the most emphasis on care/harm, libertarians are all about liberty, and conservatives run the gamut. As for what's fair, progressives and conservatives have different criteria. Regardless of the standard you use, if it's unfair, it's immoral.