That's disgusting... and so wrong!

I've written before about the psycho-immune function of disgust and the generalization of disgust reactions to the moral realm. The immunological function of disgust certainly makes intuitive sense when you consider some commonplace objects of disgust, for example, bodily fluids and excretions, rotting and decaying things, certain stinky things, glistening, leaky, blobulous innards or perhaps clams before the first time you tried them. We are turned off by things that appear to have a higher probability of spreading dangerous contagions....
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