POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Nicole Brown Simpson, Rationality, Twin Study
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Lecture 16: the moral foundations of political disagreement. Date: february 11th, 2019 (and the growing left/right divide in canada and the united states) 4 million women were battered annually in the united states by their husbands/boyfriends around the time of the o. j. Simpson trial: of these women, 1432 were murdered by their husbands/boyfriends. If there"s a 0. 04% (1/2500) chance that an abusive man goes on to kill his wife/girlfriend, then the fact that nicole brown simpson was abused by o. j. Let"s say we all agree about the starting point . It requires that our preference to be transitive. C wins! (2 and 3, vs 1: and so on . Why not just be altruistic: the evolution of cooperation. Innate: morality is innate, political issues are innate. 2: unshared environment is everything left over. For variance in ideology: 16% is attributable to shared environment, 32% is attributed to heritability, 53% is attributed to unshared environment.
