I have never actually felt visceral disgust as a reaction—the monkey brain scene from TEMPLE OF DOOM never did anything for me—and I don't necessarily respect other people's sense of visceral disgust So if you're going to build a case against something, you need to prove harm
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Like they do experiments where they try to "prime" you with grossout photos Clockwork Orange style and the more people are currently feeling disgust the more prone they are to supporting the kneejerk conservative POV when asked about moral dilemmas
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Hot take: social media absolutely does this for leftist positions too, just bombarding people with extreme individual episodes of horror or disgust to get you to snap react to them as systemic realities?
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There's quite a bit of research into the psychological basis of political identification that has shown correlations between the strength of disgust reactions and conservative identification. Interestingly, when presented with "disgusting" images, conservatives linger longer.
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Right, the way disgust is a love/hate thing, where disgust is a perverse attractant rather than just a repellent Rather than just saying "Get it away from me so I don't have to think about it" the attitude is seek-and-destroy, chasing it to the ends of the earth to eliminate it
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fucking disgust man afaik the best theory is that disgust is part of the adaptive immune system; it's there to produce strong aversive reactions to things that make/made you sick if you eat/get close to them vermin, shit, rotting flesh, open sores, etc. etc.
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part of what this means is that it can get projected onto almost anything at the drop of a hat, that's how it does its job as far as disgust is concerned, false negatives are a huge deal, false positives mostly harmless
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