Why I Feel Disgusted about Anything?

When I opened my quora account. I found a question: why do I feel disgusted? What does it mean and how do I get rid of it.

At least thousands and more followed this question. I realised that this is really a big problem for our society.

So, I come on the topic directly without wasting the time. What is the meaning of disgust?

Disgust is a feeling of strong dislike or disapproval.

Disgust is an emotion of strong dislike and disapproval or something considered offensive, dissatisfied or in pleasant.

Charles Darwin wrote that disgust is an emotion. Which refers to something revolutionary.

According to previous studies, it believes that disgust emotion has evolved in response to harmful things. Which harms the organism.

For example, when we see contaminated water, moulding milk, and rotten meat. We feel disgusted.

It appears that disgust is caused by objects or living things, who have qualities that are infected with diseases. Like, animals (lizards, cockroaches, snakes etc), human and animal feces and urine, rotten food items, cleanliness or hygiene, death, chronic diseases.

The above main discussed stimuli are similar to each other.

In the scene they can all potentially transmit infection and are cross culturally the most referred elicitor of disgust.

Because of this, hatred is believed to have evolved as a component of a "behavioral immune system"

In which after entering the body, the body tries to fight disease-carrying pathogens.

New research carried out by the psychological department of kent university has shown.

The emotion of disgust depends on the motives a person seeks to communicate.

The expression of disgust therefore signals different information to an observer than an expression of anger.

Then perhaps, people express disgust rather than anger when they want to show that they are motivated by moral concerns.

Two further experiments confirmed this: participants themselves chose to express disgust. When their goal was to show that their condemnation of an act was morally motivated.

While they chose to express anger when they sought to oppose that act. Harmed his own interests.

The findings suggest that disgust is not simply an expression of an internal emotion.

such as nausea or contamination, but a sign that advertises a moral position.

So, we have two findings. Why do we feel disgust?

In one case when we face a pathogens problem. Means, from the object or living things have the quality to infect disease to others. Because We have a threat to die and desire to survive.

In another case when we face moral circumstances. Means when we face moral threats. A motive to seek to communicate our moral dislike.

Tubur, divided the disgust emotion into three domains.

1. Pathogen disgust- It arises because of want to survive and fear from death. It is like "behavioral immune system" means the first line of defence in our body.

When any foreign objects enter our body. Our immune system is active to fight with unknown objects. To protect our body from outsiders.

You observe that, when you eat rotten meat or rotten food.your body gives signals of vomiting.

Because your body gives signals to our brain that something unusual is happening in our body.

Same condition applies when we smell moulded milk. Our brain suddenly reacts and we give the expression of disgust.

2. Social disgust- The social disgust emotion occurs. When we see broken rules and regulations from anyone. Which our society, country, and family makes.

As I mentioned above, when something does not directly affect us we react to that thing as morally disgusting. When something directly hurts us we react to that thing as anger.

We define social disgust on the basis of race, caste, religious beliefs, and society made customs and taboo.

Interesting thing is that social disgust changes according to time, person to person, and society to society.

For example, according to time patriarchal society changes into matriarchal society.

Some people agree with communism and some people agree with secularism.

In some society People accept homosexuality, in some society people do not accept homosexuality.

So, social and moral disgust is changeable in nature.