Misdeeds & Disease: How Similar Are Disgust & Moral Disgust?
The news earlier this fall that chemical weapons had been used in Syria’s civil was seen as a new low in that conflict. Many people condemned their use as “disgusting”; President Obama, making the case for a military response, said the images from the attack were “sickening.”
Moral outrage sometimes demands the language of disgust. In the case of serious and grave wrongdoing, it feels appropriate that physical revulsion overlaps with moral repulsion.
Are physical and moral disgust
