We are seeing in real time who functions from tribalism and feelings and who functions from principle.

What if it’s not our feelings that make us moral people, but our capacity for reason?

What if the goal of a moral life is not to eliminate all of our prejudices—a worthy though very difficult, almost saintly task—but to use principles to cross-cut our prejudices?

(If we hold a principle—for example, “I believe all people are equally worthy of dignity and rights”—yet find ourselves emotionally resisting that when certain people or “kinds” of people come to mind, we can recognize that we have a prejudice and choose to act on our principle rather than our prejudice.)