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What Haidt finds is most people say it doesn't
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and then he simply asks them, being a good psychologist,
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"Okay. What's wrong with it?" and this is the brother/sister case.
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And the responses are interesting.Because people view themselves as committed to
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an ethics of autonomy, they can't just say it's disgusting.
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So, they exhibit what Haidt describes as "Moral dumbfounding,"
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meaning that they struggle to find an explanation.
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They say it's terrible because they'll have a kid
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and the kid'll grow up freaky and then the experimenter--
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it's an interview situation--says, "Well, no.
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Remember they're both using a lot of birth control." "Maybe she's under age."
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"No, not under age." and finally, "Well, it's just wrong."