I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think that devices designed to kill as efficiently and quickly as possible are “disgusting.”
I don’t think so either, but I guess I should listen to Dr. Jay, he obviously knows more about my emotions than I do.
I never said your feelings were unreasonable; I only called them out as feelings, because that’s what they are. At least you’re admitting “disgusting” is an emotional response and not an objective reality as you claimed initially.
It’s perhaps an emotional descriptor, but it is attached to a purely objective observation (that being guns are designed as killing machines). Guns don’t disgust me. But when I think of them rationally, I’d describe them as disgusting. There’s a distinction there. I don’t think it’s hard to understand why someone might call something objectively repulsive.
I understand the sentiment. It’s just not one based on reason. There’s no such thing as “objectively repulsive”. Guns being repulsive is based on your point of view and is inherently subjective.
Again though, it seems pointless to argue that feelings don’t matter when they are what fuel basically every side of every debate. In my mind it’s odd to descredit an argument because it’s potentially based on emotions when I could just as easily do the same with the arguments on the other side.
And I’d encourage you to do so as much as possible. “But muh guns!” is no more valid than “Guns are disgusting.”