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This is a short video which purports to show how our different levels of fear of disease (disgust) form our attractions to one another, our religious believes, and our political philosophys. Interesting
1 posted on 01/13/2017 9:56:53 AM PST by flyover
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To: flyover

Just a matter of who has the higher standards.


2 posted on 01/13/2017 9:58:13 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: flyover

I guess I have a low threshold. I couldn’t watch past Kathleen Mcauliffe.


3 posted on 01/13/2017 10:04:04 AM PST by albie
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To: flyover

Interesting.

I am not surprised their is a link, I only question the causation element.

The video seems to imply that conservative are most disgust sensitive, or that being more disgust sensitive makes you more conservative.

I would argue that being exposed to supposedly “disgusting” things hardens you.

Those who have always lived in very clean homes for instance might be very sensitive to how clean a gas station bathroom is and be more likely to consider it disgusting. Where someone who lives and has always lived in a pigsty might not be bothered at all.

Since people on the low end of the economic spectrum are far more likely to support liberals that provide them with needed assistance, and are also far more likely to live in horribly disgusting environments, they might simply have become hardened to it all.


4 posted on 01/13/2017 10:09:17 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: flyover
I worked in a big city ER for a long,long time.As one could probably imagine you see a side of life that the typical middle class American wouldn't even imagines could exist.I got over the disgust I felt having seen various things for the first time...it's the only way one can survive in such a setting.

Also,regarding her mentioning of "xenophobia" and germs...I've done a fair amount of traveling in my day.I've traveled the First World *and* the Third World.Africa...Asia...South America.I can guarantee that a decent,respectable person experiences a whole new level of disgust visiting such places...and seeing some of the people there.

IOW,this woman's just engaging in a slightly different,a somewhat more "scientific",form of "You voted for Trump? I bet you didn't graduate 3rd grade".

6 posted on 01/13/2017 10:14:39 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: flyover

Idiotic premise.

I’ve seen all kinds of disgusting things and traveled to 3rd world countries to see how they manage life.

I’ve also seen dead people in car accidents and in a autopsy.

I just prefer to live a certain way.

For instance, I cannot stand a dirty bathroom or kitchen and I am constantly wiping everything.

I even have a bottle of alcohol in the bathroom so I can disinfect everytime I’m in there.

Used the toilet? wipe it down.

Use the sink? Clean and wipe it down.

I never spend any real time such as an afternoon cleaning because I am always cleaning.

As for stepping in dog poop, it pisses me off.


9 posted on 01/13/2017 10:35:32 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: flyover

The flaw is in viewing people through a biological/behaviorist/brain connection lens. People, despite what we observe, are more complex than that.

There is a massive spiritual dynamic to the way we tick, which will forever evade the clinician watching with tablet in hand.


10 posted on 01/13/2017 10:42:52 AM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: flyover

No but I know when I see it . . . heh heh


11 posted on 01/13/2017 10:45:27 AM PST by t4texas (No koolaid for me. Thanks!)
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To: flyover

Well, that was a leftist propaganda-filled several minutes of my life that I’ll never get back.

It was, however, interesting that this researcher noted correlation between lack of disgust and lack of empathy, and given her thesis of leftists being far less prone to disgust, you’d think in the interest of even-handedness that she might deign to explore this.

Looking at behavior in large cities, with crime victims being ignored and going unaided, with hit and run drivers in cities rolling around having pedestrians embedded in their windshields begging for help until they bled to death, with the increasing isolation and visible lack of empathy among urban young, with the murder rates being through the roof among urban blacks and no one cares, it would seem as if an obviously intelligent person such as herself would perceive this as a worthwhile avenue to pursue in her related research into pathologiziing conservatism.


12 posted on 01/13/2017 11:00:41 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: flyover

Insert Helen Thomas pic.


13 posted on 01/13/2017 11:20:36 AM PST by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: flyover

I’m not going there. It sounds disgusting.


14 posted on 01/13/2017 11:23:24 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: flyover
Here is my threshold:


15 posted on 01/13/2017 11:24:22 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: flyover; et al

“Let the snowflakes scream, wail, gnash their teeth, beat their chests, and shed gallons of their tears; for it is but music from on high and the nectar of the gods which pleases the human beings to no end.”


25 posted on 01/13/2017 11:55:34 AM PST by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights .........It is the LAW...)
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To: flyover

I survived Obama. #disgustingthings


28 posted on 01/13/2017 12:18:09 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: flyover

I guess I’m more of a psychopath than a conservative, according to this. I’ve lived in and visited third-world countries. Had several “Dirty Jobs” as a kid. Blood, guts, gore, offal, insects, etc. are part of life, unless you live in an ivory tower.

This person needs some real-world experience, in addition to training in speech and communication.


30 posted on 01/13/2017 1:11:59 PM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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