This feels like it should be two posts--one on Jews and one on Haidt. That said, I appreciate both subjects and the way one sheds light on the other. Thanks.
You are overthinking this. Some people are more predatory, some are just more submissive by nature. Both groups have their own ways to justify their approach to success and survival. There were Maccabees and there were Shtetl's Jews. I know siblings from an identical backgrounds who have a totally opposite political and social views. Some women will fall on the sword before loosing their honor, some will prostitute themselves in order to survive. In WW2 the Poles sent a cavalry against German tanks and paid dearly for this act of symbolic bravery, the Czechs on other hand decided to outlast the Nazis by surrendering. At the end Nazi Germany lost and was destroyed. Who is to judge.?Sure the environment has an impact, but how do you explain Israelis marching for peace with the Palestinians, while rockets are being launched from Gaza and are falling on their heads ? Many of these marchers for peace were veterans of combat units. I've two dogs, one large who is untrainable, and has a screw you attitude, he likes me, and loves my wife, but he will never change, the other is small and very submissive. They both want to be fed and taken for walks. Not sure if people are much different. Recent study claimed there is a such a thing as leftist DNA, maybe we are predestined in our approach to life.
I don't see how this applies to actual issues today.
Transexual Advocacy, Climate Change, Covid, etc are not predicated on anything but deception, and moral attitudes do nothing to change the essential reality that these issues have no basis in reality, and that is not a matter of moral perception but provable fact.
They may be presented as moral imperatives, but a scam is a scam is a scam, and contrary opinions can't change reality.
This feels like it should be two posts--one on Jews and one on Haidt. That said, I appreciate both subjects and the way one sheds light on the other. Thanks.
You are overthinking this. Some people are more predatory, some are just more submissive by nature. Both groups have their own ways to justify their approach to success and survival. There were Maccabees and there were Shtetl's Jews. I know siblings from an identical backgrounds who have a totally opposite political and social views. Some women will fall on the sword before loosing their honor, some will prostitute themselves in order to survive. In WW2 the Poles sent a cavalry against German tanks and paid dearly for this act of symbolic bravery, the Czechs on other hand decided to outlast the Nazis by surrendering. At the end Nazi Germany lost and was destroyed. Who is to judge.?Sure the environment has an impact, but how do you explain Israelis marching for peace with the Palestinians, while rockets are being launched from Gaza and are falling on their heads ? Many of these marchers for peace were veterans of combat units. I've two dogs, one large who is untrainable, and has a screw you attitude, he likes me, and loves my wife, but he will never change, the other is small and very submissive. They both want to be fed and taken for walks. Not sure if people are much different. Recent study claimed there is a such a thing as leftist DNA, maybe we are predestined in our approach to life.
This is a treatise that needs an in depth study and analysis for a normal person to be able to comprehend it's true meaning!
I don't see how this applies to actual issues today.
Transexual Advocacy, Climate Change, Covid, etc are not predicated on anything but deception, and moral attitudes do nothing to change the essential reality that these issues have no basis in reality, and that is not a matter of moral perception but provable fact.
They may be presented as moral imperatives, but a scam is a scam is a scam, and contrary opinions can't change reality.