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.
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.