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A very interesting way to think of the qualities of moral dimensions. I'd like to add that the typical liberal traits can also become unbalanced, such as feeling excessive self-doubt and indecision, seeing false equivalences, failing to defend oneself, etc; but it seems to me that social conservatism starts as an imbalance, namely the inability to tolerate ambiguity. This defect leads to (or coexists with) lack of empathy, intolerance, and distorted two-valued thinking. A requirement for a one-size-fits-all clear-cut answer seems to be the common denominator. I'm too much of a liberal not to pause and wonder that many conservatives (John C Wright as a handy example) likewise view the liberal perspective as "psychopathological." Could this mean that I'm indulging in projection, rationalization, dissociation, us-vs-them thinking, etc? In my experience these are exactly the types of questions the conservative mind-set disallows as too unsettling.