I don’t think having a negative emotion about something is strong evidence someone’s opinions weren’t drawn from an external source. (For one thing, most people naturally have negative reactions to the breaking of social norms!)
Also, I don’t see anywhere in jimrandomh’s comment that he made any claims about the thing you’re talking about? He was exclusively discussing word choice among people who had negative reactions.
That’s a fair point, but mine was a bit more subtle: I consider it a meaningful distinction whether the moral judgment is because of the disgust (whatever may have inspired it), or because of the violation of some external code (which also happened to inspire disgust). But yeah, it’s definitely hard to distinguish these from the outside.
Perhaps I have misunderstood what he meant, but he does say that he’s not talking about the people “using it unreflectively as a generic word for ‘bad’,” so I don’t think it’s just about word choice, but actually about what people use as a basis for moral judgment.
I don’t think having a negative emotion about something is strong evidence someone’s opinions weren’t drawn from an external source. (For one thing, most people naturally have negative reactions to the breaking of social norms!)
Also, I don’t see anywhere in jimrandomh’s comment that he made any claims about the thing you’re talking about? He was exclusively discussing word choice among people who had negative reactions.
That’s a fair point, but mine was a bit more subtle: I consider it a meaningful distinction whether the moral judgment is because of the disgust (whatever may have inspired it), or because of the violation of some external code (which also happened to inspire disgust). But yeah, it’s definitely hard to distinguish these from the outside.
Perhaps I have misunderstood what he meant, but he does say that he’s not talking about the people “using it unreflectively as a generic word for ‘bad’,” so I don’t think it’s just about word choice, but actually about what people use as a basis for moral judgment.