“Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.”

— Jonathan Haidt

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)

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American psychologist 1963

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