2: Value Conflicts / Taboos
Explore the boundaries people often place on the range of the "thinkable." Other Information:
Value conflict/taboo trade-offs/protecting the sacred. This research explores the boundaries people often place on the range
of the "thinkable." Examples include taboo trade-offs, forbidden base rates, and heretical counterfactuals. The guiding conceptual
framework is the sacred-value-protection model which maintains that: (a) moral communities tend to treat certain values as
sacred, as though (at least at a rhetorical level) the community has an unbounded or infinite commitment to the values that
precludes trade-offs, compromise, or other mingling with secular values or considerations; (b) members in good standing in
the moral community are supposed to direct the moral outrage at those who mix secular and sacred values considerations (and
indeed are supposed to engage in meta-norm enforcement: to punish those who fail to punish); (c) members of the moral community
who have merely witnessed the profanation of sacred values are also supposed to engage in moral cleansing to purify the self
and to reaffirm solidarity with the normative order.
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