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Disgust is what Paul Rozin has called "The body and soul emotion."
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And we know certain things about disgust. It is a human universal.
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It is a basic emotion with a characteristic facial expression.
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Remember Paul Ekman's work on the basic emotions,
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the universals of emotional expression? Disgust is one of them
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and it is universally elicited by certain things like this list.
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Wherever you go, feces, urine, blood,
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vomit, rotten flesh and most meat will be disgusting.
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Now, if that was all we had to say about disgust,
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it wouldn't affect morality very much
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but we know that people can be seen as disgusting.
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And Charles Darwin actually, who was an astute observer of human behavior,