Would You Drink Water Made From Sewage?
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Would you like to eat a brownie – shaped like a piece of poop, or slurp delicious soup – out of a newly-sanitized bedpan, or drink a freshly-squeezed glass of juice – into which someone had dipped a sterilized cockroach? Perhaps unsurprisingly, when actually put in these scenarios, most people turn them all down – even the brownie! That's because, even though these snacks are perfectly safe to eat, human brains are built to trigger powerful feelings of disgust at even the slightest suggestion of contamination. Humans probably evolved to be easily disgusted because it saved them from eating nasty stuff like spoiled food and feces. Even now that we have rational ways of figuring out what’s safe, disgust still makes some of our decisions for...
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Would you like to eat a brownie – shaped like a piece of poop, or slurp delicious soup – out of a newly-sanitized bedpan, or drink a freshly-squeezed glass of juice – into which someone had dipped a sterilized cockroach? Perhaps unsurprisingly, when actually put in these scenarios, most people turn them all down – even the brownie! That's because, even though these snacks are perfectly safe to eat, human brains are built to trigger powerful feelings of disgust at even the slightest suggestion of contamination. Humans probably evolved to be easily disgusted because it saved them from eating nasty stuff like spoiled food and feces. Even now that we have rational ways of figuring out what’s safe, disgust still makes some of our decisions for...
