America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

We can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it perfectly: "Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

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

Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.

The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.

If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them.