{"id":37285,"date":"2019-01-20T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37285"},"modified":"2018-12-30T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T14:07:07","slug":"qotd-emotion-and-loyalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/20\/qotd-emotion-and-loyalty\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Emotion and loyalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has argued for years, doing things in groups is really hard, and the larger the group, the harder it gets. Moral values like group loyalty &mdash; an  instinctive group loyalty, not some dry intellectual thing carefully reasoned from first principles and self-interest &mdash; make it possible for us to do this very difficult thing. And the reason you can\u2019t simply rely on a more intellectually attractive, well-reasoned version is that other people will not trust it. Your reasoning could change, or your self-interest could dictate that you betray them. Bedrock emotions are stickier. This makes them problematic, but it also makes them necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2017-01-26\/in-defense-of-trump-s-day-of-patriotic-devotion\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;In Defense of Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Day of Patriotic Devotion'&#8221;, <em>Bloomberg View<\/em><\/a>, 2017-01-26.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has argued for years, doing things in groups is really hard, and the larger the group, the harder it gets. Moral values like group loyalty &mdash; an instinctive group loyalty, not some dry intellectual thing carefully reasoned from first principles and self-interest &mdash; make it possible for us to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41],"tags":[424,139,42],"class_list":["post-37285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-morality","tag-psychology","tag-sociology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Hn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37286,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37285\/revisions\/37286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}