Posted by 838 on March 9, 2006, at 21:42:58
In reply to Re: disgust as emotion » 838, posted by LegWarmers on March 9, 2006, at 21:01:59
hmm...
there is an experiment... they showed these characters (foreign letters / symbols) to people...
then they showed them a whole range (some had been presented before and others were entirely novel).
people tended to prefer the ones they had been shown before.
i don't think that is an emotional exercise...
preference...
preference seems to be the measure of aversion...
but aversion seems to be the measure for disgust...
but just because you prefer one thing...
doesn't mean you are disgusted by the other...i dunno.
kind of interesting...
i think fur takes longer to grow than one night...
i do.
typically... the guidelines are way conservative anyway...
i read somewhere that macdonalds meat patty takes... something like 3 months to show visible signs of mould...
additives and preservatives and so on and so forth...
ew.
but oil and vinegar and salt can preserve too...
i need sleep...
sleep...
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