Previous research onmoral intuitions has revealed that while both liberals and conservatives value the individualizing foundations, conservatives also value while liberals discount the binding foundations.
The moral claim real money places on society on behalf of its bearer comes not from the intrinsic value of the token but from the fact that the bearer had previously produced some good or service deemed valuable by others.
In a 2008 essay highly critical of Dr. Kass's work on the Bush bioethics council, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker questioned the value of dignity as a moral guide.