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What motivates moral outrage?


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What Motivates Moral Outrage?

When 109 travelers entering the United States were detained by an executive order blocking citizens from seven Muslim majority countries, tens of thousands of Americans gathered all over the country to voice their anger. The policy had little to no direct effect on the protesters themselves. Similarly, more than four decades after Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that effectively legalized certain forms of abortion, people regularly gather to voice their anger at those providing abortion services.

Social psychologists refer to such displays of anger against a third party (such as a government) for perceived harm against someone as moral outrage.

Read more: Live Science

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An interesting read. I am surprised that the entire political spectrum expresses moral outrage for the same reasons; all too often, varying points of view create different motivations. It's nice to see that deep down, everyone is equally terrible and pointless in their mewling.

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What Motivates Moral Outrage?

I'd say it's anything that challenges the values and beliefs their parents gave them.  Deep, early beliefs are pretty strong and will cause folks to fight to the death to defend the beliefs they were given at home. 

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It's hard to believe that something so intangible can move entire cultures to kill each other.  Over differing ideas.  Thought processes.  It doesn't even have to be religious.  Communism, Fascism, you name it.  If it's an ideology it can be twisted and warped to fit a greedy power hungry man or group's agenda.  An entire nation can be led down the road to wrack and ruin if the belief is strong enough.  Look at Germany, Japan, the former Soviet Union.  Look in the mirror.  If your belief/ideology is so strong that it has no room for discourse of opposing opinions then it is dangerous and you should run as fast as you can from it. 

Even the Bible states the Sabbath was made for Man and not Man for the Sabbath. (Mark 2:27)  Christ himself said there are exceptions to not working on the Sabbath.  If your ideology can't allow for that then you need to find something else to occupy your religious time.  

I think there are basic instinctive moral compasses we all have.  We will fight to the death to protect children even when they're not our own.  Women being accosted is another outrage triggering situation.  The elderly.  There are some things we all have in common that trigger our moral outrage.  Unless you are morally bankrupt and care for nothing but your own self-interests.  

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