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Originally Posted by dereds
Thought you considered liberty the most important moral foundation you ****ing idiot.
I wasn't talking about moral foundations was I; I was talking about political and social organisation.
The means of achieving social cohesion comes by establishing a set of shared values, and the most important such value is liberty.
People need a sense of liberty to operate. They are most effective when they think they are free. This is key.
Authority is also important, but too much authority becomes oppression, and this is counter-productive. Authority works best when it is in league with liberty and also loyalty.
In order to achieve all of these things you need in-groups and out-groups. Human beings cannot function at the level of ALL of humanity. Our instincts are not towards the global but the tribal. So we must work with that, not against that.