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How Did You Become a Disgusdologist?
Disgust was originally defined as a rejection or offence at the oral operation of an offensive substance. Paul razin agrees, the core of disgust is most certainly originally derived from a system to avoid pathagans,. which are usually part of animal food, not plant food. And that's what led to his interest in disgust. What got me interested is that meat is the most favorite food of humans, and also the most tabooed food. So i got curious why we should have such a strong negative emotion about a food that is highly nutritious and highly favored. It turns out there are different categories of things that might make us sick that we find disgusting - six categories. There's disgust...