... the liberals were more likely to misunderstand a conservatives morals ...
A liberal, having a more open mind, would understand what the conservatives are saying\thinking, but consider it inappropriate, ignorant or silly.
The whole "life begins at conception" issue, for example is both silly and ignorant. Living cells are combined so there is no
new "life" being made, and then only ~30% of zygotes (egg+sperm) make it to fetus category: the other ~70% don't,
and never will, qualify as a human being, so even the more relevant definition of "human life" does not apply to conception.
Anyone wanting to discuss this should go to
Legal Death, Legal Life:
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From the above link we can see that over 70% of zygotes do not normally and naturally become living breathing thinking human beings. Over half of conceptions are not human beings - a single cell that passes out of the uterus is no different than a skin cell that is shed, an ejected blastula is no different than tissue that is accidentally or intentionally cut off (like a toenail), and an empty pregnancy sac is not a living organism.
The point here, is that basing your "morality" on a false paradigm is actually
worse than silly or ignorant, it is
immoral -- to liberal thinking.
... that deep down conservatives don't care about fairness, liberty or harm.
Or reality. This is a major problem, and this false morality is making the US more and more dysfunctional, and not just at government levels.
I think this might comport with your first impression: conservatives evaluate morality using a larger set of criteria, so perhaps the added criteria serve as additional constraints. So, the conservatives' confidence intervals are narrower (that is, they allow less "wiggle-room" around their decision), and consequently they give much more rigid moral answers in specific scenarios?
Schrodinger's cat says sometimes there is a box, sometimes there isn't. That doesn't mean we should be ruled by the box, rather we should consider both possibilities.
Liberals think the choice should be up to the cat.
Another example is a woman I was trading posts with on facebook regarding the statement of faith that Bernie made: she wanted to know where he stood on receiving Christ into his life, and was basing her choice of presidential candidate on that sole criteria. She did not care whether or not politicians
lied about being Christian, she would take them over someone who was a life-long Jew based solely on this one criteria.
That is insane -- imhlo (in my humble liberal opinion).
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