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Yes they do. It's just that their morals are rooted in "protect the people and things closest to me at all costs". Their values are extreme tribalism. They also believe those outside the group are constantly threatening the safety and prosperity of the in-group.

This is why so much of what they do seems contradictory and hypocritical. Yes, they want prosperity for those they consider "like them", but they are also willing to do things that harm themselves if it harms the "enemy" more. And, they blame the enemy for that harm, not themselves.

It's literally "this is why we can't have nice things". It's your fault.

A conservative may think, "welfare might be nice, and it's true all my neighbors depend on it, but those welfare queens are stealing it, so we can't have it. Public pools might be nice, and they provide a safe place for my children to play, but people I consider unclean might use them, so we can't have them."

This is how a conservative woman can justify an abortion for herself, but not for others, even though anti-abortion laws make it harder for her to get that abortion in the first place.

I (being a teenager) was confused by this because this issue is so much larger than just her daughter. So I tried again to explain how many people are harmed by sex work criminalization and how decriminalization would decrease sex trafficking and she repeated again, with a smile on her face: "I don't want my daughter to do that and decriminalization would signal that that is an acceptable thing for her to do".

The whole study is free to read, but I wanna draw attention in particular to part 3a, and this graph.

These are heat maps showing peoples responses when asked how far they consider their moral responsibility to extend, divided by political alignment.

These are the options participants were given:

(1) all of your immediate family,

(2) all of your extended family,

(3) all of your closest friends,

(4) all of your friends (including distant ones),

(5) all of your acquaintances,

(6) all people you have ever met,

(7) all people in your country,

(8) all people on your continent,

(9) all people on all continents,

(10) all mammals,

(11) all amphibians, reptiles, mammals, fish, and birds,

(12) all animals on earth including paramecia and amoebae,

(13) all animals in the universe, including alien lifeforms,

(14) all living things in the universe including plants and trees,

(15) all natural things in the universe including inert entities such as rocks,

(16) all things in existence

I can’t do that without negative consequences

I can’t do that unless I have support for it

I can’t do that

Trevor Noah has a great tip, that when he craves ice cream at night he breaks it down into parts: I want something cold, I want something sweet. He drinks a glass of cold water then waits to see if he still has the ice cream craving. Usually he doesn’t.

So listening to your body isn’t “follow every urge” but “decompose the urge to discover the underlying need.”

If you always feel like getting cozy in bed you may be: cold, dehydrated, and/or malnourished (maybe a need for high calories that are bioaccessible…not processed).

If you do not feel tired at bedtime you may: need to eat dinner earlier because your body is still digesting, need to exercise or go outside more during the day, get the fuck off your screen for an hour so your brain can enter sleep mode.

Hope this helps someone.

Have you considered that this is how your presence feels?

It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

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