While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and a lot of it is ideas about purity, about what you're willing to touch, or put into your body.

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you.

The world doesn't usually affect us directly. It's what we do with it. It's the filters that we put on it. That's the foundation of certainly most pop-psychology, and of a lot of psychotherapy, cognitive therapy. So that, I think, is the greatest truth.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.