God Wants You Dead: Ideological Morality
Rarely do people hold feelings of neutrality about any ideology. Few people manage to ignore the higher level structure and consider the component ideas.
This means that you can usually consider someone who despises a philosophy as a whole to be just as brainwashed as someone who embraces it completely. A person may know all the dogma of a certain ideology and still reject it in its entirety.
It is the rarer person who can dislike a given idea-organism but is still able pick out the few good and useful ideas it has.
- God Wants You Dead
by Sean Hastings and Paul Rosenberg
The color X is good. The color Y is bad. Selling Z is profitable, therefore it is good, therefore people should do it. People who wear a good color can be trusted to sell Z. People who wear a bad color should be shot if they sell Z. Got it? Congratulations, you now know everything you need to be a morally-aware gangsta. (Where X and Y are colors and Z is something which is made valuable by legally-imposed scarcity)
I think there’s a strong tendency for people to make a decision about somethings right at a particular moment rather than prolong the decision-making process about whether something is good or bad (which makes good evolutionary sense, but not-so-good rational sense). i think that tendency to make dichotomous decisions probably contributes to religions’ and political successes.