Exploring Disgust in Young Children and Morality

Young children do not have a sense of disgust initially and are comfortable with eating and touching things that adults find disgusting. Disgust, both physical and moral, develops later in children, with physical disgust emerging around the time they become more mobile and moral disgust coming even later. However, the speaker argues that moral disgust is not a positive trait as it is often based on happenstance connections between physical disgust and morality, leading to historically discriminatory and harmful beliefs and actions. The speaker believes that true moral maturity involves acknowledging personal disgust reactions but not using them as a basis for condemning others.