(September 3, 2015 at 1:57 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: I think there's a little bit of the Catholic response in our revulsion at the thought of bestiality. There's plain sex, and the further we get away from plain sex between a man and a woman, the more uncomfortable we feel. Sex that is a bit unusual is 'kinky', ie. not straight. It hasn't been that long since gay sex was considered abnormal, and sex with animals just takes strangeness one step further. There is a sense in which anything beyond just plain sex makes us nervous.You make a good point. The more a sexual practice differs from the norm of heterosexual vaginal intercourse the more disgust the average person feels toward it.
My question is directed to those people who believe that morality is based, in part, on the instinctual empathy people have toward each other. Why is the feeling of disgust any less of a guide for human behavior that is right and proper? What reason justifies privileging one survival instinct over another?
