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Having debated liberal policy makers on the matters of financial viability and cost-vs-benefit, half of them cannot do the math and the other half don't care. Their politics and ideology is more important that any concern of things costing more.

I think Haidt explained this as the missing moral filters of liberals. The have uncontrolled emotions over indications of harm and fairness. In fact, they can be manipulated by overplaying fears of harm or unfairness. Conservative brains have a much more diverse moral filter that includes factoring fairness and harm, but also does the math.

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