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**Being good is being upright
 
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**Morality is strength (Conservatives tel you to stand up and fight. It correlate with the FFFF for fighting against danger to survive. [[User:WinSysop|Tal Yaron]] 13:12, 15 August 2012 (IDT))
 
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**Being bad is being low
 
**Being bad is being low

Revision as of 04:12, 15 August 2012

Original paper[1].

Summery

Lakoff set several moral metaphors used liberals and conservatives.

Conservative metaphors

The most important is strength metaphor:

  • Good
    • Being good is being upright
    • Morality is strength (Conservatives tel you to stand up and fight. It correlate with the FFFF for fighting against danger to survive. Tal Yaron 13:12, 15 August 2012 (IDT))
  • Bad
    • Being bad is being low
    • Doing Evil is falling
    • Evil is a force (Conservatives tend to see evil as something done by somebody, and this relate to the FFFF mode of somthing that try to harm us. Tal Yaron 13:10, 15 August 2012 (IDT))


references

  1. ↑ Metaphor, Morality, and Politics, Or, Why Conservatives Have Left Liberals In the Dust ,George Lakoff, 1995
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