Might there be some value in the conservative virtues?
2007-09-24 · Original WordPress address
Answer, "balance". Response, "re-balance".
Neither Douthat's answer or Wilkinson's response address Haidt's original point about conservative virtues: "surveys have long shown that religious believers in the United States are happier, healthier, longer-lived, and more generous to charity and to each other than are secular people. Most of these effects have been documented in Europe too. If you believe that morality is about happiness and suffering, then I think you are obligated to take a close look at the way religious people actually live and ask what they are doing right."
What sort of balancing or re-balancing of the virtues in society gets the modern mix ((I guess its obvious that modern, liberal virtues are better...)) right and still maintains what "religious people... are doing right" to make them happy?