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George Lakoff, professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley, has been working on moral frames for 50 years.
In her abortion study, she shows only women moving in and out of the three moral frames of reference that together constitute her relational ethics: Level One in which women overemphasize the interests of their selves; Level Two in which women overemphasize others' interests; and Level Three in which women weave their own interests together with those of others.
This includes advancing a diversity and inclusion imperative that invades and guides our collective consciousness and moral frames of reference.
At the same time, the increasingly diverse ethnic and racial mix in the cities is full of working-class communities where both liberal and conservative moral frames matter.
It becomes clear how deeply America's moral frames of reference have deteriorated when we realize that it was Kathryn Bigelow, a Hollywood director and power, and not a known shill for the Neoconservatives, whose film presents torture as having been instrumental in finding Osama bin Laden, and that "enhanced interrogation" is Americans doing what Americans must do to protect home and hearth.
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In Rome, in 1878, Ibsen wrote "Notes for a Modern Tragedy", which describes the moral frame of A Doll's House.
To avoid shutting down the conversation, Dembicki says it helps to move away from moral framing.
Those who hold to a conservative moral frame, by contrast, accept faith-based moral absolutes and respect traditional authority.
They were also aligning the national Democrats with a liberal narrative and moral frame that values equality, equal rights, and fairness.
We will never know if a deliberate and consistent moral framing may have won the day, but imagine if the guarantee of coverage was called "the moral society option" or some such term that communicated an entirely different message.
What the national Democrats' embrace of the liberal moral frame and America's economic ascendance misses is not just the plight of nonmetropolitan America, but also the reality on the ground in the big cities, which are ground zero for our country's greatest challenges.
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