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TFA uses the terms "disgust" and "moral repugnance", without defining them, as if we all know and agree what they are, then "discusses" their historical cultura

• guerrilla 6y ago
  How is it possible that you don't know what disgust is?
• patcon 6y ago
  > This is story telling. I get so disappointed that this is such a common mic drop pejorative on HN. Of COURSE it's story-telling. That's the point of science communication. Stories penetrate and bridge silos. Data wrapped in narrative happens to be the most effective way to penetrate that vast majority of human neurotypes Also, I find your requirement for an upfront definition of disgust (and your discount of the content for it not being present) to feel very much like trolling. EDIT: fwiw, this description of disgust is very much like the story of laughter: how it was repurposed over evolutionary history as we become more social creatures (converting something reflexive into something under social control), and we still see relics of this "migration" in our psychology and musculature (re: duchenne's laughter). So this tracing of the history of disgust is very par for the course in how professionals who study such things talk about this stuff. Your comment is frankly ignorant and dismissive for no good reason.
• dang 6y ago
  "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html