repugnance

repugnant | American Dictionary

repugnant
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/rɪˈpʌɡ·nənt/
causing a feeling of strong dislike or disgust:
The trade in wild animals was repugnant to most people.

Examples of repugnant

repugnant
If you accept general hedonism, you must either embrace the repugnant conclusion or alternatively deny utilitarianism.
To anyone with even mild liberal leanings, such a view should be counterintuitive at best, if not repugnant.
Classical utilitarianism applied to populations of varying size implies the repugnant conclusion.
I have spent much of my career lambasting linguistic prejudice, so this idea is especially repugnant.
In a similar vein, we argue until we have come close to the repugnant conclusion.
Put bluntly, injection of potassium to procure feticide may be acceptable, but injecting potassium into a newborn would be, to most, repugnant.
That contemptible and repugnant "message" is what should be challenged and opposed, not the right to express it.
The lower it is set, the more repugnant the outcomes we are driven to acknowledge as better.
However, this conclusion is in no way repugnant.
We know that the repugnant conclusion is acceptable from the point of view of total utilitarianism.
In particular, is there a way for an egalitarian to show that we ought to accept the repugnant conclusion?
But some people seem to find the repugnant conclusion repugnant.
They must address other serious problems as well, including the repugnant conclusion.
And once we accept the repugnant conclusion, the putative paradoxes of population ethics go away.
Counters think it is okay to be ignorant, a position which ridgeologists find repugnant and even demeaning.
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