earthlingOutraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground by Kurt Gray, 2025
A groundbreaking new perspective on the moral mind that rewrites our understanding of where moral judgments come from, and how we can overcome the feelings of outrage that so often divide us.
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Noodlemaz@appassionato@mastodon.social @bookstodon@a.gup.pe I'd take issue with the very premise. It's not the outrage or 'feelings' generally that divide us
It's what people find acceptable or not. It's outlook and action. It's whether they see other beings as worthy of life or not.
It's not the 'outrage' that stops me hanging out with people who think I should be legally forced to be an incubator at my own life's risk, or that people should drown at sea for seeking safe harbour, or that a terrorist act justifies genocide.
Noodlemaz@appassionato@mastodon.social @bookstodon@a.gup.pe I can make a very calm, considered decision to just not associate with them. Because apathy drives pain in this world and I refuse to be a part of that where I have a choice.
I refuse to let their equivocating influence me to a position where my own apathy can grow and harm others.
I want my life to be full of considerate, justly-minded and compassionate people. Not reactionary, hateful, dismissive, nationalist, bigoted arseholes.
Maybe that is the thrust of the book.