Ah, yes, the root cause of Nazism is, of course, the simple existence of negative emotions, without which we would all, by definition, be happy Why did no one else ever think of this solution to societal ills
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
Look, as disgusted as you may be by the emotion of disgust, and as ironic as that may be, as the canonical psychological text Inside Out taught us, disgust is one of the five basic human emotional responses
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
To have a "kneejerk sense of disgust" is to be a functional human being, in particular to have a functional moral sense Indeed, disgust and morality are synonymous - the act of moral judgment is merely an abstraction, the lived experience of which is the feeling of disgust
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
(Emotivism is correct, motherfuckers)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
So … what do we say to those who experience knee-jerk disgust at homosexuality or transgenderism?
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Replying to @mileshuman @arthur_affect and
Is there a morally-correct set of disgust reactions? Are you confident you have that set? How did you come by it? If you’re a person who doesn’t happen to share that same set, how do you know you’re wrong? How do you change your disgust reaction profile if you want to?
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Replying to @mileshuman @PlzBeSensible and
I didn't say that I agree with Leon Kass that the morals you came out of the box with are automatically correct
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mileshuman and
Well, you did say you were a conflict theorist from your mother's womb.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @mileshuman and
Yeah which just means I was born with the gift of not being fucking stupid
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mileshuman and
It doesn't sound to me like you've spent much time critically examining the morals you came out of the box with.
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Being a "conflict theorist" isn't a description of a moral system, it is a description of how you think the world works on a practical level (i.e. it is defined by conflicting interests)
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