Steven Pinker Quotes

The Human Mind Has Evolved A Defense Against Contamination By Biological Agents: The Emotion Of Disgust.111 Ordinarily Triggered By Bodily Secretions, Animal Parts, Parasitic Insects And Worms, And Vectors Of Disease, Disgust Impels People To Eject The Polluting Substance And Anything That Looks Like It Or Has Been In Contact With It. Disgust Is Easily Moralized, Defining A Continuum In Which One Pole Is Identified With Spirituality, Purity, Chastity, And Cleansing And The Other With Animality, Defilement, Carnality, And Contamination. 112 And So We See Disgusting Agents As Not Just Physically Repellent But Also Morally Contemptible. Many Metaphors In The English Language For A Treacherous Person Use A Disease Vector As Their Vehicle - A Rat, A Louse, A Worm, A Cockroach. The Infamous 1990s Term For Forced Displacement And Genocide Was Ethnic Cleansing.

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