I've come to the conclusion that political outlook may be leading us to different interpretations of the functions. In particular, I interpret as "subjective experience". Others seem to interpret it as "ethics". I don't really see the correlation, except in so far as one can use knowledge of a person's subjective experience as a guide to whether or not something should be reasonably expected from them. This is not the ethics that is described in most analyses of the subject I have read, however....

Perhaps liberals have a tendency to perceive being ethical as being open to many points of view, thus allowing one to understand what a person is attempting to accomplish and as such, to know what they feel themselves open to.