Munch-Jurisic (2023) argues for a contextual account of perpetrator disgust that sees disgust reactions as only reflecting our social context and the meaning we bestow onto actions rather than having any inherent moral value. I argue that we should expand this contextual account to allow for some meaning to be given to the moral feeling perpetrator disgust can invoke, especially in people who are not traditional perpetrators.
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