the object level issue aside, this is a great example of mainstream social norms rely heavily on the disgust reflex as an intuitive arbiter of morality, and people who suppress theirs are treated as fundamentally suspicious; good reasons for this, but it can lead to bad places
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RT @clairlemon
This is what I mean about Twitter's rising dumbness. Aside from the fact that Richard's sarcasm is missed, people are mad at me for pointing ou…
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1435379146331279361

the upside to this approach is that "deviants", ie those that differ from various norms in some way, do in fact tend to be more likely to be dangerous in some way; tribalism and conservatism are powerful tools for avoiding danger, and we feel them strongly bc they kept us alive

the downside is, ofc, that too much of this limits one's ability to respond to new situations; cognitive flexibility is critical when encountering heretofore unknown challenges, ones which the traditional and trusted ways are not equipped to handle.

the spectrum of openness to experience and modes of thought exhibits horseshoe dynamics, in that both extremes tend to fail in comparable ways

those too closed tend to slowly die out as the world changes around them, while those too often tend to quickly spiral out of coherence