ABSTRACT
Disgust, as a moral emotion, differs importantly from other moral emotions, like anger. Anger is the typical moral emotion felt for perceived violations within the harm and fairness domain. Worries about inequality typically arouse feelings of anger, rather than disgust. We make angry rather than disgusted faces more often when it comes to lying, to cheating, to violent assaults, to concerns about exploitation, and so on. We may still describe markets that we believe will violate what some refer to as the “ethics of autonomy” as “noxious” or “repugnant.” But this is not because disgust is the typical felt response. Perhaps calling these markets noxious or repugnant is based on an aesthetic decision. Some might use it not because each of the markets generates a disgust reaction, but because “noxious markets” or “repugnant markets” makes for a good category.
