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| Question posted on April 8, 2009; 1 response |
| ... eat a retarded human with the intelligence of a pig? What can account for our revulsion at one and not the other aside from the fact that one would-be morsel looks... |
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| Response posted on September 7, 2007 by Allen Stairs |
| ... can't admire all things considered can still produce beauty might well evoke compassion rather than revulsion. ... |
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| ... a response to real features of the act, and those features typically produce sentiments of revulsion, horror and the like that lead me to act -- or not act -- in... |
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