Perhaps. We have to turn it into a moral war. Man

And while the political right may moralize sex much more, the political left is really doing a lot of it with food.

You find the same thing in Buddhism.

The answer, I think, is that they used every tool in the toolbox.

And biotech is moving rapidly in Africa, at last.

We are in the midst of a moral decline.

learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix.

It gives us very strong feelings about those who cause harm.

So anyway, let's go with the red pill.

Liberals are basically saying, No, this is not morality.

Yes, you do need to be concerned about harm, you do need a psychology of justice.

So let me summarize.

Because if our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity here is going to make it harder.

Do you all place great importance on morals?

The price that we pay is psychic. We lose our moral groundedness.

Aren't those just the foundations of xenophobia and authoritarianism and Puritanism?

You can either take the blue pill and stick to your comforting delusions, or you can take the red pill,

And the other one is empathy and compassion.

If there really are five systems at work in the mind five sources of intuitions and emotions then we can think of the moral mind as being like one of those audio equalizers that has five channels, where you can set it to a different setting on every channel.

Step out.

Everybody I mean, we debate over what's fair but everybody agrees that harm and fairness matter.

So these are the pillars of morality.

And so we work on these particular issues to see if we can create a morality from the bottom up, so to speak, without necessarily god and religion involved, and to see how we can get to an evolved morality.

They cheat just by a little bit.

I bequeath country first unified theory that I have discovered, with the power that your application entail?

Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and a lot of it is ideas about purity, about what you're willing to touch, or put into your body.

Built in doesn't mean unmalleable it means organized in advance of experience.

So I started getting interested in those issues and studying that in other animals.

But I saw how the level of moral standard can rise from one person's action.

You have this tension over slavery.

This Norman Rockwell painting is called The Golden Rule, and we heard about this from Karen Armstrong, of course, as the foundation of so many religions.

Well, if you take the greatest insights from ancient Asian philosophies and religions, and you combine them with the latest research on moral psychology,

So, if you think that half of America votes Republican because they are blinded in this way, then my message to you is that you're trapped in a moral matrix, in a particular moral matrix.

And I've always been very fond of this painter who lived and worked in the 15th century.

But this would be immoral if we also did not have an infrastructure for intervention, for treatment.

25 percent just like 25 percent emissions today comes from cars 25 percent of their energy for the entire industrial world in the U.K. came from a source of energy that was immoral human slaves.

For four decades Gaddafi's tyrannical regime destroyed the infrastructure as well as the culture and the moral fabric of Libyan society.

And that is that the central moral challenge of this century is gender inequity.

I mean, I'm an economist, but this is ultimately not an economic question, it's a moral question

However, the moral and political choice is still up to us, as citizens and as voters.

The gradual slippage 'slippage' is the word used by the people in Watergate, moral slippage it's a gradual kind of thing, combination of things.

Now this is obviously a powerful, some might say dangerously powerful, insight.

To find out, my colleague, Craig Joseph, and I read through the literature on anthropology, on culture variation in morality and also on evolutionary psychology, looking for matches.

The other element of moral hazard, and this is a more nuanced notion, but it's in some ways the more important element of moral hazard.

We've been here before with energy, and people saying the economy cannot withstand a switch, because the cheapest energy was slavery.