People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

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

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for those feelings. Even when the servant (reasoning) comes back empty-handed, the master (intuition) doesn't change his judgment.

While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.