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If morality is the answer to the question 'how ought we to live' at the [[individual]] level, [[politics]] can be seen as addressing the same question at the social level. It is therefore unsurprising that evidence has been found of a relationship between attitudes in morality and politics. Jonathan Haidt and Jesse Graham have studied the differences between liberals and conservatives, in this regard. [http://faculty.virginia.edu/haidtlab/articles/haidt.graham.when-morality-opposes-justice.doc]

If morality is the answer to the question 'how ought we to live' at the [[individual]] level, [[politics]] can be seen as addressing the same question at the social level. It is therefore unsurprising that evidence has been found of a relationship between attitudes in morality and politics. Jonathan Haidt and Jesse Graham have studied the differences between liberals and conservatives, in this regard. [http://faculty.virginia.edu/haidtlab/articles/haidt.graham.when-morality-opposes-justice.doc]

''When morality opposes justice: Conservatives have moral intuitions that liberals may not recognize''] (DOC) [[Social Justice Research]]. [http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/conference/2007/haidt Morality: 2012: Online Only Video: The New Yorker][http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1445] According to their model, political conservatives make their moral choices using five moral variables (harm/care, fairness/reciprocity, ingroup loyalty, authority/respect, purity/sanctity), whereas liberals use only two (harm/care and fairness/reciprocity). Haidt also hypothesizes that the origin of this division in the United States can be traced to geo-historical factors, with conservatism strongest in closely knit, ethnically homogenous communities, in contrast to port-cities, where the cultural mix is greater, thus requiring more liberalism.

''When morality opposes justice: Conservatives have moral intuitions that liberals may not recognize''] (DOC) Social Justice Research. [http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/conference/2007/haidt Morality: 2012: Online Only Video: The New Yorker][http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1445] According to their model, political conservatives make their moral choices using five moral variables (harm/care, fairness/reciprocity, ingroup loyalty, authority/respect, purity/sanctity), whereas liberals use only two (harm/care and fairness/reciprocity). Haidt also hypothesizes that the origin of this division in the United States can be traced to geo-historical factors, with conservatism strongest in closely knit, ethnically homogenous communities, in contrast to port-cities, where the cultural mix is greater, thus requiring more liberalism.

Group morality develops from shared [[concept]]s and [[belief]]s and is often codified to regulate [[behavior]] within a [[culture]] or [[community]]. Various defined actions come to be called moral or immoral. Individuals who choose moral action are popularly held to possess "moral fiber", whereas those who indulge in immoral behavior may be labeled as socially degenerate. The continued existence of a group may depend on widespread conformity to codes of morality; an inability to adjust moral codes in response to new challenges is sometimes credited with the demise of a community (a positive example would be the function of [[Cistercian]] reform in reviving monasticism; a negative example would be the role of the Dowager Empress in the subjugation of China to European interests). Within nationalist [[movements]], there has been some tendency to feel that a nation will not survive or prosper without acknowledging one common morality, regardless of in what it consists.

Group morality develops from shared [[concept]]s and [[belief]]s and is often codified to regulate [[behavior]] within a [[culture]] or [[community]]. Various defined actions come to be called moral or immoral. Individuals who choose moral action are popularly held to possess "moral fiber", whereas those who indulge in immoral behavior may be labeled as socially degenerate. The continued existence of a group may depend on widespread conformity to codes of morality; an inability to adjust moral codes in response to new challenges is sometimes credited with the demise of a community (a positive example would be the function of [[Cistercian]] reform in reviving monasticism; a negative example would be the role of the Dowager Empress in the subjugation of China to European interests). Within nationalist [[movement]]s, there has been some tendency to feel that a nation will not survive or prosper without acknowledging one common morality, regardless of in what it consists.

Political Morality is also relevant to the behaviour internationally of national governments, and to the support they receive from their host population. Noam Chomsky states that [http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=2064][http://www.artsandopinion.com/2007_v6_n6/chomsky-4.htm]  

Political Morality is also relevant to the behaviour internationally of national governments, and to the support they receive from their host population. Noam Chomsky states that [http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=2064][http://www.artsandopinion.com/2007_v6_n6/chomsky-4.htm]