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A new study showed a link between strong right-wing views and fear of disease and increased concern about hygiene.
The study showed that people who are more offended by bad odors are more likely to support authoritarian leaders, such as Donald Trump.
In the past, disgust at bad odors was important for survival. The scientists suggested that the disgust at unfamiliar odors may be linked to a desire to keep apart from "culturally unfamiliar" groups.
[...] In the new study, 160 people were rated on their aversion to bodily odours on a scale to one five and their responses compared to their political views. It found that each point higher on the disgust scale was associated with feeling 7.5 points more positive towards authoritarian leaders.
[...] It showed that people who were more disgusted by smells were also more likely to vote for Donald Trump than those who were less sensitive.
(Score: 1) by i286NiNJA on Friday March 02 2018, @11:28PM (2 children)
I don't think it's weird to feel bad about a stranger's life being cut short. I think it's weird that you'd comment first and foremost on the attractiveness of a murder victim. Would you be happier if the "thugs" were killing the uggos and duffers? Do you cry every time you hear a stranger got themselves killed by engaging in risky behavior? I don't know I don't have much more to say on the subject but it feels like you're grading the worthiness of a life by their bangability. Maybe that wasn't your intent but if we're talking about who we'd encourage our kids to date I'd consider that a red flag from a suitor.
As for my kids, they'll be fine because I have the ability to launch them into adulthood on the right side of the socioeconomic divide. You grew up during the most prosperous middle class in US history. I know where the bottom half of our country is headed. I've seen it with my own eyes in other countries. To comment on the future of young americans sounds sociopathic because the future will be a colder crueler place than you've probably experienced. So you're still kidding yourself because you'd be as mad as I am if you weren't.
I never judged their lives to be unworthy, your generation did though it's selfishness. Now even as these kids get passed the shit end of the deal, it's popular sport for boomers to talk about how worthless and spoiled they are. Maybe we'll grind them up into soylent or maybe we'll find some worthwhile causes for them to die for. But by the numbers the future is bleak for any given statistically average American kid.
I have PTSD because I've been bad places so if I say we're going bad places maybe I know what I'm talking about.
(Score: 2) by Oakenshield on Saturday March 03 2018, @04:48PM (1 child)
I do not, but unlike you, that doesn't mean I have no empathy at all.
I never mentioned nor implied "bangability". You brought it in from your own projection beginning with your very first post. It pissed me off enough to reply in the first place. Youth and beauty are intertwined. The end of a young life is tragedy because they had their whole life before them.
With your outlook on life, I'd be more concerned about keeping them out of prison: Conflating youth and beauty with "bangability", misplaced anger, jealousy, total lack of empathy toward others' misfortunes, depression, pessimism, lack of insight, poor judgment, projection. Parental influence on children sometimes works in ways you don't want.
Wow. I do hope you are under the care of a professional for your PTSD and whatever else you are suffering.
Dude, you need help. I am the one of us that is advocating empathy for people cut down early in their life and you are talking about grinding them up into Soylent. You are the one saying "She might have been a piece of shit and deserved it." If anyone looks at it objectively, it's pretty obvious which one of us judges their lives "to be unworthy" and which one doesn't. Don't project on me and "my generation" as you call it, for your lack of caring. It's pretty obvious who doesn't care.
If you do have kids, I certainly feel bad for their development and future. Their father must be a laugh riot to be around. Make sure you keep your opiates locked up at home. Don't want to make it too easy for them.
(Score: 1) by i286NiNJA on Monday March 05 2018, @06:36PM
You seem genuinely pretty bothered. Don't let it ruin your day I think you sound like a creepy old man, it's not ok to call people sweet young things anymore (4real).
I'm distantly worried about all the things I talked about but across all this you should keep in mind I'm just talking shit and being contrarian. Maybe all this shit will come to pass and your kids will end up eating your corpse on soylent green wednesdays. Probably we'll get our shit together, we've done it before.
Why are you here though? It doesn't seem like you're a guy who spent years dealing with trolls, reading cDc, or laughing at penisbirds and hello.jpeg. This is a weird-named clone of a has-been web 1.0 forum and you seem rather facebook.