Martha Nussbaum
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first heard Oct 2009
last heard Oct 2009
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So how do we deal with that?
Well, one thing that one could try to say is, well, there the word disgust is being used loosely, and what we really feel is some kind of very strong indignation.
Now I think that goes for some cases, but perhaps not for the one that you mention.
Uh certainly not
Not all the time.
So then let's suppose there are these cases where disgust is there as well as indignation, and these are two separate responses that we have.
I guess here I would say that indignation is the more appropriate and the more constructive response.
In disgust, what we're basically saying is: yuck, that contaminates me.
Let me get that out of my sight.
Let me get me out of the way of that.
And that's not a particularly constructive social response.
It can involve shutting your eyes to really terrible things when they're going on.
And of course, people often do shut their eyes to things.
Another problem with the disgust response is that disgust tracks blood and gore.
One reason that torture arouses disgust is that we it does involve bodily waste.
Products, blood, gore, and so on.
Now we know that when juries are presented with the account of what a murderer has done in ways that stress the blood and gore, they'll be more likely to find aggravating factors in the homicide than when that isn't presented, but that doesn't always track how bad the homicide was.
It doesn't track premeditation, it doesn't track things like the calculating cold quality of the murderer.
And so it is
isn't particularly reliable.
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