The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt

We do moral reasoning not to reconstruct the actual reasons why we ourselves came to a judgment; we reason to find the best possible reasons why somebody else ought to join us in our judgment.36

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it’s very difficult to empathize across a moral divide.

Reasoning can take us to almost any conclusion we want to reach, because we ask “Can I believe it?” when we want to believe something, but “Must I believe it?” when we don’t want to believe. The answer is almost always yes to the first question and no to the second.

I may fall, but I do not die, for that which is real in me goes forward and lives on in the comrades for whom I gave up my life. 2

Erwin in attack on titan be like:

It’s the friendships and group activities, carried out within a moral matrix that emphasizes selflessness. That’s what brings out the best in people.