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Author: Lambo 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Guess who
Date: 09/16/2025 8:27 PM
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥@gtconway3d·7h
And guess who is the most concrete (non-abstract) thinker in America today? (Hint: He thinks that political asylum is a place.)

Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.soc... 28m When I've said Trump's moral development
is at the stage of a toddler's I wasn't trying to be funny. This is from Kohlberg's Stages Of Moral Development. (BTW, Kohlberg found only 10-15% of people reach the most advanced level of moral reasoning, as it requires the capacity for abstract thinking)

Daniel Baryon @AnarkYouTubeSep 15
Right-wingers have an underdeveloped morality. They are perpetually stuck in stages 2-4 and never mature to adult moral standards.

This is why they are so easy to manipulate by power structures and also why they are so morally inconsistent.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d...

SNIP Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development describes moral reasoning in six stages, grouped into three levels: preconventional, conventional, and postconventional. In the preconventional level (Stages 1-2), moral reasoning focuses on self-interest and avoiding punishment. The conventional level (Stages 3-4) involves conforming to social norms and laws, while the postconventional level (Stages 5-6) is characterized by a focus on universal ethical principles and social contracts, even when they conflict with laws. SNIP

We have a President who appears to be stuck in stages 1-2 and may think the rest of us are suckers.
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Kohlberg is to moral development as Piaget is to cognitive development as Erickson is to social development as Fowler is to faith development.

I spent a lot of coursework studying these guys.

All follow a similar path to explain the general developmental stages of their respective aspects of human maturation.

Very good stuff. Their insights have been extremely helpful to me throughout my career and life.

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Author: Lambo 🐝  😊 😞
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I got introduced somehow to the social contract theory and enjoyed thinking that way. But try explaining that to some folks and they look at you like you're diseased.

"The social contract theory states that individuals voluntarily give up some of their absolute freedom to a governing authority in exchange for the protection of their rights and the maintenance of social order. This "contract," often hypothetical, establishes the moral and political obligations between a society's members and its government, with legitimacy arising from the consent of the governed"

"I didn't consent to anything," they'll say.

"Yes, you did," I respond, "you turned 18 and didn't leave. You still have a choice to leave now, but if you choose to stay, then you live by the laws, and you consent to them by staying. Otherwise, you are free to find a country you like better, or to live remotely and not encounter society." (This is my own interpretation)
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