Moral communities reject Enlightenment rationality for certain sacred domains

Evidence

Intuitive theologians are suspicious, and unapologetically so, of the classic Enlightenment values of open-minded inquiry and free markets. Opportunity costs be damned, some trade-offs should never be proposed, some statistical truths never used, and some lines of causal/counterfactual inquiry never pursued. — Philip E. Tetlock, Thinking the unthinkable, 41

Categorization

• QUESTION: Directly relevant to the reader’s purpose: this frames sacred-value protection as the refusal to even entertain certain trade-offs — the moral outrage mechanism the reader wants to understand.
• XREF: Connects to the reading purpose on manufactured enemies and taboo cognitions — the refusal to count opportunity costs is exactly the threat-hardened belief that moral correction may backfire against. — connects to: Sacred values resist tradeoffs because communities set them apart as nonfungible moral imperatives. — Scott Atran and Jeremy Ginges, Sacred Values and Cultural Conflict, 4; The Enlightenment’s core project displaced local moralities with universal rational ones — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 71; Enlightenment reason reshaped religious providence rather than displacing it — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 122 (+6 more)
• ADDENDUM: Supports ‘On Sacrifice: The Real Kind, with Corpses’ — sacrificial taboo-logic (some things cannot be priced) framed here in modern economic-rationality terms.

Related

• Sacred values resist tradeoffs because communities set them apart as nonfungible moral imperatives. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The Enlightenment’s core project displaced local moralities with universal rational ones #contradicts (0.85) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 71
• Kantian ethics made morality rational and shorn of embodied form, displacing Aristotelian ethics #expands (0.85) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 191
• Enlightenment reason reshaped religious providence rather than displacing it #contradicts (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 122
• Moral intuitions bind strangers into sacred communities that outcompete rivals #corroborates (0.80) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 465
• Environmental ethics critiques Enlightenment frameworks while remaining trapped within its rationality #qualifies (0.78) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 360
• Kant’s ethics reject casuistry and graded moral categories, unlike Islamic practice #expands (0.75)
• Some cultures may lack a distinct moral domain #complicates (0.75) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 489
• Enlightenment rationalism generated new monsters instead of eradicating them #contradicts (0.70) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 352