List Of The Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Jonathan Haidt’s “The Righteous Mind”

A curated list of passages Scott highlighted in Jonathan Haidt's 'The Righteous Mind,' each with a brief one-line reaction. The excerpts are genuinely fascinating and cluster around the social/evolutionary function of group institutions: Azande witchcraft beliefs as a tool to order society; Todorov's competent-looking-face predicting two-thirds of elections; Tomasello's 'two chimps never carry a log together'; Acheulean tools as plausibly innate-not-cultural; McNeill's synchronous-drilling-induced 'muscular bonding'; Sosis's finding that costly-sacrifice-demanding religious communes vastly outlast secular ones; religiosity boosting trust-game cooperation and dominating high-trust markets (ultra-Orthodox diamond dealers); Putnam/Campbell on religion-as-social-capital; the moral-foundations intellectual-Turing-test where conservatives model liberals better than vice versa; libertarian personality; and the post-1964-realignment / Gingrich-1995 roots of polarization. Valuable as curation with light framing comments, but minimal original writing -- the substance is Haidt's.

Quality 58 · Solid. High-Solid (58): a valuable, well-chosen curation of striking passages on moral psychology and group cohesion, with Scott's brief reactions adding a little -- but it is fundamentally an annotated excerpt list with minimal original content, which caps it in the upper Solid band.

Claude’s paradigm shift 30 · Slight. Slight (30): the curation is thoughtful, but the ideas are Haidt's and the post adds framing rather than novelty.

Real-world impact 2 · Minor. A well-chosen curation of striking moral-psychology passages from Haidt with brief reactions; an annotated excerpt list within the discourse, no material-world reach → RWI 2.