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
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
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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it feels like a big hazard of the internet, this transposing of the anecdotal into the systemic to an even greater degree than people already do by default?
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Nymphomachy
I'm not talking about that, the experiments show the disgust response being primed doesn't require any logical connection
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Like, you show someone a photo of a pile of poop or whatever and then you ask them how they feel about consensual adult incest and if there's an objective moral argument against it etc
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