A consistent theme in arguments between the left and right is who has the authority to do something. Biden’s latest vaccine mandate is an example. <\/p>\n
The Daily Wire<\/i> is suing the federal government over the mandate. They argue … <\/p>\n … the federal government has no power under the Constitution to force half the U.S. private sector workforce to be vaccinated against their will or to endure repeated medical testing as a condition of earning a living. <\/p>\n It also argues that even if the federal government did have this power, Congress never delegated the power to OSHA, meaning this type of rule would be in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, making it unconstitutional. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n This is the way a conservative would think. It’s not only a question of whether something is a good policy, it’s also<\/i> a question of who should do it, and under what authority. <\/p>\n Liberals tend to push that stuff aside. If it’s a good thing to do, they don’t care about all those details. (Back when I participated in that dumpster fire called Facebook, I saw this play out again and again.) <\/p>\n I’ve mentioned Dr. Jonathan Haidt’s work on moral foundations<\/a> before. They include … <\/p>\n Dr. Haidt says conservatives tend to give equal weight to all these factors, while liberals tend to emphasize #s 1, 2 and 6, and don’t pay much attention to the others. <\/p>\n We see this pattern in the debates over the vaccine mandates. Liberals don’t seem to care whether OSHA in particular, or the federal government in general, actually have the authority to issue these mandates. They just think it’s the right thing to do, so get on with it, and damn the details. But to conservatives, how<\/i> something is done is just as important as what’s done. <\/p>\n Note: I’m not saying that liberals never appeal to authority, or rely on it. Of course they do, especially in legal arguments. It’s just that authority is not as important to them. It’s the annoying stuff you have to get past. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A consistent theme in arguments between the left and right is who has the authority to do something. Biden’s latest vaccine mandate is an example. The Daily Wire is suing the federal government over the mandate. They argue … … the federal government has no power under the Constitution to force half the U.S. private … Continue reading “Does authority matter? Dr. Jonathan Haidt’s “moral foundations” theory is on display in the vaccine mandates”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n