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Moral Disgust

You are the only one who has used the term ' disgust ', to seemingly tag other people with feelings no one has expressed.

We have not seen any examples where many, if any people, express feelings of disgust towards adult, sibling incest ..
 
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Skeptical Greg said:
We have not seen any examples where many, if any people, express feelings of disgust towards adult, sibling incest ..
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WHAT? Are you crazy?

I certainly find it disgusting, and I doubt I'm in the minority.
 
zooterkin said:
What are you talking about this time? Common theme in what? The OP is about incest between a brother and sister of unspecified age. You were talking about a 16 year old; there isn't one in the OP.
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Moral outrage, moral disgust they're the same thing. I thought that was obvious, I said it in plain English: The common theme is moral outrage of course.


If you can't decipher what's being talked about from that sentence :boggled:

(I wasn't talking about a 16 year old, that was Pup's post I was responding to)
 
Skeptical Greg said:
You are the only one who has used the term \' disgust \', to seemingly tag other people with feelings no one has expressed.

We have not seen any examples where many, if any people, express feelings of disgust towards adult, sibling incest ..
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From the linked article in the OP.
Most people who hear the above story immediately say that it was wrong for the siblings to make love, and they then begin searching for reasons (Haidt, Bjorklund, & Murphy, 2000)

Moral reasoning is usually an ex post facto process used to influence the intuitions (and hence judgments) of other people. In the social intuitionist model, one feels a quick flash of revulsion at the thought of incest and one knows intuitively that something is wrong.

One of the citations in the linked article:
Haidt, J., Rozin, P., McCauley, C. R., & Imada, S. (1997). Body, psyche,
and culture: The relationship between disgust and morality. Psychology and Developing Societies, 9, 107-131.

If people on this board do not feel disgust or revulsion at the hypothetical situation, the point of the OP still stands and is worthy of discussion. Getting hung up on disgust is to entirely miss the point.
 
Gods Big Toe said:
If people on this board do not feel disgust or revulsion at the hypothetical situation, the point of the OP still stands and is worthy of discussion. Getting hung up on disgust is to entirely miss the point.
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Welcome to the forum by the way.

"Missing the point" is a forum favorite. It allows you to fake confusion, create uncertainty and then claim the other person is semi-literate for not clearly communicating every detail a minutia. Failing that correcting spelling and grammatical errors are soon to follow. ;)

"disgust" might be too strong of a word. Suffice to say we are talking about an emotionally driven negative response to the situation as described by the OP.
 
Skeptical Greg said:
I agree, and why I brought it up.

Ivor seemed to be looking for " disgust " ( Title of OP ), and didn't get very many bites...
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No, I'm pretty sure Ivor was using the common vernacular.

There is an interesting aspect, at least in my opinion, to how much of "revolt" or "disgust" is physical and how much is mental. Some things seem universally disgusting, but most seem to be very much on a case by case basis.
Me, if I ate a sandwich, only to find out later it was filled with snot and ground up bugs I wouldn't care. Other people I know would and do become ill at the mere suggestion of such a sandwich. They say it's a sensitive stomach, I say it's an overactive imagination.

But we digress. I'm pretty sure Ivor just meant "disgust" as in "dislike".
 
Furcifer said:
"disgust" might be too strong of a word. Suffice to say we are talking about an emotionally driven negative response to the situation as described by the OP.
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It's an important distinction, because disgust has its own neural pathways in the brain which are distinct from (although often overlapping with) other negative emotions.

And yes, I think digust is the correct term for incest aversion.
 
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