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But after two or three times, I got it.So repugnance can change.
So repugnance can change.
find shocking and repugnant and I want to acknowledge that and expose it so we can move on from
But there are more profound kinds of repugnant transactions.
There used to be things that were repugnant that are no longer.
And it's because there's a sense of repugnance and revulsion at coming into contact with that.
And I know you've thought about this issue of repugnance, that people are opposed at this idea, they find it distasteful that somebody might sell a body part
So I got interested in the question of repugnant transactions.
I think of that as a sort of prototypical repugnant transaction.
There are things that used to be not so repugnant that are now repugnant.
So there are things that used to be not so repugnant that we didn't do them that are now repugnant.
you find in the Bible that are really repugnant from the perspective I've been describing. So you point out that although Jesus says
So I started to get interested in the question of what I call repugnant transactions, which are transactions that some people would like to engage in
the idea of having extra dressing at the bottom of a salad is repugnant to all of us. The idea of having a little extra sauce to drag up with our bread is kind of what the Americans
Suddenly, that foot is no longer the dirty, repugnant body part that everyone wants to avoid.
But it's not that as we get more modern, old repugnances necessarily die away.
issue that he did great art the problem was he couldn't sell it because he was essentially socially repugnant to people including his own brother who was the
And now that I think about it, actually, if you think about Frankenstein and many other monsters, very often, their repugnance, or our revulsion at them,
And other people, who weren't involved and weren't planning to necessarily marry themselves, other people thought they shouldn't, so a repugnant transaction.
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