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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Replying to @Nymphomachy
It's interesting because all that stuff about moral framework theory says that disgust is a key driver of moral intuitions, and the stronger your sense of disgust the more likely you are to be traditionalist and politically conservative
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
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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and so knowing what we do about disgust it drives me absolutely fucking mad that conservatives will unabashedly cite their own squick as a good guide to moral truth like, it is just clearly the least reliable of all the moral emotions, what the actual fuck
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Remember how in his famous essay about the "wisdom of repugnance" explaining why he was against stem cell research Bush's Chair of Bioethics Leon Kass ended up going on a tangent about his disgusting ice cream cones were
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