What's Your Brain Ideology? Take the Test

[vixnix]

I ticked mild disgust or neutral figuring that I had to save severe disgust for stuff like

"you see your father fucking your mother's dead body"
"you see someone in a gimp suit brutalising a child"
"you see someone dissecting an animal without anaesthesia because they take pleasure in the pain responses of the animal"

etc

Next to that, underpants for a week and eating monkey meat is like....eh, mild disgust

[duovamp]

Your brain is a Democrat

Conservative (20%)


Not sure how scientific this is.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by slunken

Disgust it disgust. I don't care if its maggots or a dead body. It's proportionate to the situation.

i find maggots much more disgusting than a dead body

[redbreegull]

recently I have come to find certain food smells to be nauseating, such as movie theater popcorn butter and the distinctive smell as soon as you enter a Subway

[toase]

Conservative (34%)
Liberal (66%)

This is stupid

[Disco King]

I guess it's time I reveal my score.



This is funny because I'm a lefty.

I feel uneasy pretty easily. My eyes legit start watering involuntarily if I see somebody has something hanging out of their nose.

Sometimes my feelings contradict my opinions. Like, if you were to ask me, I'd say "people should be more open talking about sex and parents should have healthy discussions about sex with their children and it shouldn't be seen as taboo etc etc." But actually I'm quite glad my parents never tried to talk to me about sex because ew. And I'm happy for what Laci Green does but I'm not going to sit through one of her videos explaining how to use a dental dam to facilitate safe anilingus. I'm pretty much Hank Hill. Or a shy debutante. I probably hesitate and lower the volume of my voice before saying words like "poop" or "sex."

Originally Posted by redbreegull

The monkey one was also hard for me... I clicked neutral because I felt like the test was measuring fear or disgust. My problem with eating a monkey is the intelligence and emotional complexity of the animal, not a rejection of weird food, but if I was starving I would probably eat the monkey so

Yeah, that one was hard for me, too. Like, when I watch one of those game shows where they have to eat worms or something, my response is just, "What's the big deal? Obviously they wouldn't feed this to the contestants if there was a realistic chance it could make them sick." I know a lot of people who wouldn't eat those lollipops with insects in them, but they seem harmless to me. I probably wouldn't have too hard a time adapting to foreign cuisines and unfamiliar meats so long as everything is prepared hygienically.

Only reason I said "no" to monkeys was their similarity to humans.

Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1

i wish somebody would mention me by name in their post and say i'd probably know something

Take this quiz to determine how ignored you feel. I think teh b0lly!!1 probably knows the name of the game.

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

51% conservative / 49% liberal

my brain is republican, it says

i guess

i said i was slightly disgusted by a person eating an apple with a fork. i meant disgusted by the person, not the act. i also would eat chocolate shaped like doodoo. it's only shaped like doodoo! and if i were hungry, i would totally eat my favorite soup that had been stirred with a used, but clean flyswatter

I didn't get the apple one. Like, it's just weird, not gross.

I usually eat apples with a knife because cutting it into bits is more comfortable than taking the whole thing to my face and getting some on my cheeks when I get mid-apple. But never a fork, how the fuck would one even do that.

I would have a problem with doo-doo chocolate (I don't want that image in my head when enjoying something brown; I don't even like that smiley doo-doo emoji I've been seeing lately) and the flyswatter.

Originally Posted by vixnix

"you see someone in a gimp suit brutalising a child"

Not sure if the gimp suit significantly affects the overall disgust score. I mean, the child rape variable kind of drowns out minor possible factors like that.

Maybe nose-picking would do it.

Originally Posted by duovamp

Your brain is a Democrat

Conservative (20%)


Not sure how scientific this is.

According to the site:

The study measured participants' brain response to "disgusting" imagery using an MRI. The study could predict party affiliation with up to 98% confidence. The questionaire on chartsme.com uses Jonathan Haidt's disgust scale in lieu of MRI and imagery, so results are likely far less accurate. Watch TED Talk to learn more or read "Yuck!: The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust".

It sounds like the original test was very reliable, but this one uses an inventory rather than images, so there's no way to know about this test specifically unless somebody validates it. It's possible that it has no predictive power, even though one would think it would if it measures the same variable the original test does. With the "reproducibility crisis" in psychology, researchers have found that some often-cited studies are difficult to reproduce, and only work when certain seemingly-arbitrary steps are followed.

I guess right-wingers being more motivated by disgust may explain policy positions like "sodomy" laws? A lot of the reasoning by social conservatives doesn't seem to be utilitarian ("this is bad because it will cause this undesirable outcome"), but just based on gut-reactions ("IT'S UNNATURAL AND GODLESS"). If they do try to use utilitarian arguments, they usually come in the form of "this is bad because it will lead to more unnatural and godless stuff," a slippery-slope argument that just pushes the justification back a step.

Haven't read it myself, but I think Martha Nussbaum wrote a book on the use of disgust in moral reasoning and why it's usually bad.

[Disco King]

Originally Posted by reprise85

i agree with all of these, except the apple i put no disgust. but ketchup on ice cream? gross. i also have no problem with a hand in a jar.

Yeah, I would probably find the hand in a jar cool more than anything.

I could pick up a dead cat if I just witnessed it die, and it wasn't bloody or anything. And it didn't die of some communicable disease.

If I found a stiff dead cat just lying there for god knows how long, I wouldn't touch it.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by Disco King

I didn't get the apple one. Like, it's just weird, not gross.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by Disco King

Yeah, I would probably find the hand in a jar cool more than anything.

I could pick up a dead cat if I just witnessed it die, and it wasn't bloody or anything. And it didn't die of some communicable disease.

If I found a stiff dead cat just lying there for god knows how long, I wouldn't touch it.

I mean in anatomy class we dissected a fetal pig and after he first class and cutting it open/tieing it up, it was no big deal. We also had a preserved human heart you could touch... basically drained of blood obviously, and coated in some shit, but still obviously a real heart. I actually considered that if I went to med school I'd be interested in psychiatry or forensic pathology. The human body is awesome. Inside of it, anyway. Not the dangly bits.

I have picked up a dead cat before, but it was my cat and I was upset that it was dead and not at all disgusted.

[buzzard]

I've dissected donated hobo corpses before.

[vixnix]

Originally Posted by reprise85

I have picked up a dead cat before, but it was my cat and I was upset that it was dead and not at all disgusted.

Did I forget or miss something? Your cat died??

[noyen]

Brian Ideology

[teh b0lly!!1]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

i said yes because it's meat. i've eaten deer and horse. at least, i think i ate horse. what's a monkey?!

WOULD YOU SHOOT HARAMBE OR CANNIBALIZE ONE OF BRANJELINA'S CHILDREN?

[teh b0lly!!1]

THEY HAD A GOOD RUN

[duovamp]

I'd pick up Harambe's corpse and throw it over the fence into the adjacent Arby's parking lot.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Originally Posted by noyen

Brian Ideology

all hail

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Originally Posted by duovamp

I'd pick up Harambe's corpse and throw it over the fence into the adjacent Arby's parking lot.

this makes you 71% liberal.

[vixnix]

Mac n cheese stuffed meatballs. Disgusting or awesome?

[teh b0lly!!1]

more disgusting than a pile of maggot eatin' faggots who eat monkey flesh, spray ketchup on their ice cream and habitually walk through graveyards

THAT BAD

[Cool As Ice Cream]

i agree

[teh b0lly!!1]

I REALLY HATE THESE MONSTER HYBRID FOODS THOUGH. THEY GROSS ME OUT. PIZZA WITH BURGER CRUSTS. SO GROSSLY AMERICAN IN ITS GLUTTONY. LOL CAPS ON!

[teh b0lly!!1]

DEEP FRIED BACON ICE CREAM BAKED INSIDE PIZZA DOUGH AND SERVED OVER A CRONUT BURGER

[teh b0lly!!1]

BESIDES THERE'S NO WAY IT EVEN TASTES GOOD

IT'S JUST A "YO DAWG" KINDA THING. IT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TO DO WITH, OH I DUNNO, FLAVORS!

YO DAWG I HERD U LIKE BURGER AND U LIKE PIZZA SO I PUT A BURGER IN YO PIZZA SO U CAN EAT WHILE U EAT

[Cool As Ice Cream]

i think that is perfectly fine as long as they don't add ketchup then it becomes disgusting and i have to throw up EW FU CKING EEEEXWWWWW

[Elphenor]

you see the macncheese meatball thing is where I'm like this is just boring I don't care what other people eat

but likely if that picture were shown to a group of the people around me, it would create an entire stereotypical conversation void of new content about how "omg us Americans sure will eat anything"

sometimes I wonder if everyone recognizes the conversation is banal but this is just how you're supposed to socialize, like small talk, and no one is actually disgusted

idk

[duovamp]

Originally Posted by vixnix

Mac n cheese stuffed meatballs. Disgusting or awesome?

The food in the image looks great. But I imagine no version of this food will ever come out of the oven (or deep fryer?) looking this delicious.


Regardless, I'd eat the mac and cheese meatballs, I'd shoot the gorilla, and I'd touch the dead cat.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by vixnix

Did I forget or miss something? Your cat died??

No, it was the cat my ex killed. This was like 2001.

[FoolofaTook]

Anarchist 99.9%

[ohnoitsbonnie]

Originally Posted by reprise85

i agree with all of these, except the apple i put no disgust. but ketchup on ice cream? gross. i also have no problem with a hand in a jar.

If I saw someone dead or dying or in pain or an animal (like the earthworm) I feel disgust and fear. I'd also prefer if the cook with a cold was given paid leave becaue I do my best to not get colds. I find that I forget that infectious diseases can be spread by bodily fluids and not crumby counters

[D.]

Originally Posted by Elphenor

Because in most of the cases I just could not give a single fuck, I guess

yeah, i did quite a bit of neutral or no disgust because idgaf what other people do with their food or underwear?

56% liberal

Originally Posted by vixnix

Mac n cheese stuffed meatballs. Disgusting or awesome?

growing up, we ate a lot of mac n cheese with ground beef in it, so this looks edible and possibly really delicious