To combine Professor Haidt’s analogy of the moral equalizer, with Professor Hauser’s idea of moral grammar, I devised the idea of channels of an equalizer acting as guidelines for moral grammar.
Professor Haidt claims the moral mind is like that of an audio equalizer with five channels. Each channel has a different setting, and represents the five foundations of morality. With the possibility of these different settings, Haidt discovered through a study that liberals have a “two-channel” morality, while conservatives have a more “five-channel” morality. Professor Hauser argues people are endowed with, “a moral faculty that delivers judgments of right and wrong based on unconsciously operative and inaccessible principles of action.” These “inaccessible
