Isn’t that one of the rich ironies. Every time this happens all the GOP crow about “mental health “, but ask them to give one measly, stinking dollar to public health and they lose their grip on reality. Put your money where your mouth is or shut the fuck up.
You're applying the logic model, not the purity model. - We are pure. - the pure do not succumb to mental illness, for they are pure. - if you succumb to mental illness, it is because you are impure. - the way to prevent the impure from harming the pure is by segregation, which we are no longer permitted to say out loud, so we must settle for charter schools. - purity is compounded by eschewing interactions with the impure. So long as the impure continue to choose to be impure, they shall continue to interact with the impure and suffer the detriments of impurity. You say "irony" without recognizing that an all-white charter school filled with rich republican children that say prayers every morning before the pledge and are kept in line by corporal punishment would not need to worry about any of this. After all, the Incel Rebellion would lose a lot of steam if date rape were a petty misdemeanor again. Your problem is your impurity has twisted your judgement. Get Pure and it all falls into place.
I'm almost done with it and as someone who grew up 'Pure' and managed to largely self-extract from christian fundamentalism / white nationalism Haidt is about 30 years too late. His book seems like a largely self congratulatory attempt by a non fundamentalist to steel man the arguments of 'The Pure.' Which incidentally is the name for some baddies in a sci-fi novel I finished recently, apropos of nothing. Maybe the last 15% will change my mind, seems unlikely though.
His point is that rational argument is not the most convincing rhetorical strategy when conversing with the faithful or conservative, not that one side is right and the other side is wrong. I recognize that me bringing this up to you is just me wasting my time; you are still "pure" and still refuse rational argument. Your every rhetorical gambit comes from a place of "ours is the one true blood" you've just foresworn your birthright. So we'll keep talking past each other because you've chosen a weird demographic: those who fundamentally believe fundamentalists are evil and are utterly incapable of rational discussion about rational discussion.