02-27-2021, 06:09 AM
(02-26-2021, 02:05 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Sanctity-Tradition: Maintaining the sanctity of traditional values, respecting the taboos of religion, and avoiding bacteria and contagion.
This is really a misnomer. Maintaining traditions like Melanesian ritual pederasty, Chinese foot binding or Islamic genital mutilation is stupid.
Jonathan Haidt described this factor much better:
Purity/sanctity, shaped by the psychology of disgust and contamination. This foundation underlies religious notions of striving to live in an elevated, less carnal, more noble way. It underlies the widespread idea that the body is a temple which can be desecrated by immoral activities and contaminants (an idea not unique to religious traditions).
I do feel strong dislike for contamination, but I'm not a traditionalist.