I came away from this book with a much better understanding of not only my own moral leanings, but, more importantly, a new understanding of why "those idiots" (who I don't and will never agree with) are not idiots at all. Haidt does his best to convince the liberal or conservative inside of us to try to understand the other side when it comes to morality and politics, and I think he does a fine job of explaining why most of think and act the way we do.

His intuition based explanation of morality makes a lot of sense, too, because when I ask myself why I think something is wrong, sometimes the only really good answer I can give is : because I just do. When we try to make rationalize morality, as Haidt points out, we find ourselves on very thin ice.

If nothing else, this book makes great conversation fodder. I have had some of the best morality conversations of my life while reading this.