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Article #168Re: Victory in tie sex discrimination case
From: Richard Caley
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:56
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:56
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In article <cCUlhtvFIYkV-pn2-e2UqZgdNsupd@localhost>, Ian Johnston (ij) writes:
rjc> By definition disgust is always irrational, it is an emotional
rjc> response, not an intelectual one.
ij> Just because something is emotional doesn't mean it's irrational.
ij> There may be very sound evolutionary reasons for some reactions,
ij> whether they're "digust" or "delight".
But the evolutionary reasons don't make them rational. Eg there are
probably sound evolutionary reasons for xenophobia, religion and such,
that doesn't make them rational.
Disgust at eating something considered unclean is irrational. Some
things considered unclean may in fact be things for which there is a
rational reason they should not be eaten, but the _disgust_ is
irrational, the rational reaction would be just not wanting to eat
them. A nice, clean, specially reared cockroach is probably quite
nutritious and tasty, rationally little different from a prawn,
especially if the prawn was caught in the wild, but people in our
society will very likely have a disgust reaction to a cockroach
cocktal.
There was an interesting programme on, I think, R4 last year about how
children develop disgust reactions. They start out without them and
suddenly develop them, learning from those around them. About the same
time they are likely to become picky eaters and develop a sweet
tooth. The hypothesis is that these kick in at about the time (in our
original environment) they might be getting mobile enough to stand
a good chance of eating unsupervised, so it increases their chances of
surviving if they have emotional reactions against eating anything new
or touching things their elders have been seen to be disgusted
by. (the sweet tooth steers them towards ripe fruit and away from sour
and bitter things which are more likely to cause problems).
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