Moral-critique interventions have little purchase on social dominators

Evidence

Righteousness itself means little to someone who rejects being guided by moral laws, who instead believes, more than most people, “There really is no such thing as ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’ It all boils down to what you can get away with.” — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1022

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the idea elsewhere in this library that certain persuasion levers (here moralizing) fail against particular dispositions — parallels the ‘silence/quiet’ material where appeals only work on receptive audiences.