<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Jun 10, 2016, at 2:11 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-disgust-made-humans-cooperate-to-build-civilisations?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ebf59b6f31-Weekly_Newsletter_10_June_20166_10_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-ebf59b6f31-68993993">https://aeon.co/essays/how-disgust-made-humans-cooperate-to-build-civilisations?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ebf59b6f31-Weekly_Newsletter_10_June_20166_10_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-ebf59b6f31-68993993</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Which prompted this reply from me:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Neue Haas Unica','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.4px">I am reminded of Freud's assertion that the development of morality - the superego, that is - stemmed from the evolution of prehumans. Specifically, he said that getting one's nose up in the air rather than close to the ground developed a sense of disgust with what was on the ground. So we can thank shit for our morality. </span></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>Sounds like a crap argument to me. ;)</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my latest Kindle book, "The Late Mr. Gurlitt," at:</span></div><a dir="ltr" href="http://mybook.to/Gurlitt" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://mybook.to/Gurlitt</font></a></div></div></div></body></html>