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How to mislead people through espousing morals.

To the extent that people represent a situation in a way that triggers particular moral intuitions and feelings, they generally assume that these intuitions and feelings are true regardless of who is considering the situation. i.e Trump's WALL is immoral.

They, Pelosi, Harris & Booker  also assume that the only way to disguise the true moral nature of an action is to mislead people about the action itself. If you want to exculpate yourself hid behind the Moral WAll,. You assume that, to the extent that people share your moral information (or information you hold true)  they probably share the same moral intuition, and therefore will be led to react to it in similar ways. 


That is, people represent a given situation, and represent some information about it that is relevant to social interaction, and they assume that the supernatural 'moral' agent also has that information. (Again, all this consists in tacit assumptions.) This means that, in morally relevant situations, a concept of god or spirit or ancestor is very likely to be activated as the most relevant way to fill in the emptiness. After representing a particular behavior as wrong, 


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