Moral and practical good judgment is assumed to require complex, open-minded thinking.

Evidence

The cognitive style described here, which for the sake of brevity we shall refer to as “simple,” is the opposite of the rational, open-minded, flexible, and complex thinking style that social scientists and other commentators often assume to be necessary for morally and pragmatically optimal decisions, attitudes, and behaviors. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 469

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is this assumption actually warranted? The chapter sets up ‘simple’ thinking as deficient, but does the empirical link to perpetration follow?
• XREF: connects to: True thinking requires an internal dialogue among conflicting viewpoints. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 727; Moral character holds coexisting possibilities that circumstances alternately surface — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 50

Broader Connections

• True thinking requires an internal dialogue among conflicting viewpoints. #expands (0.85) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 727
• Moral character holds coexisting possibilities that circumstances alternately surface #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 50