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In summary, in issues of moral dilemmas that involve the body, obvious reactions are of disgust because one imagines oneself in the situation, and the "gut reaction" takes place. But I question Haidt's use of intuition- which conjures up images to me of inner knowledge and foresight, whereas here it is used as the so-called "split second" judgements, that perhaps are passed down in society through religion or parental beliefs. For instance, thinking that Julie and Mark's love making is bad because of our biblical prohibition of incest for genetic reasons is based in society's laws, not automatic "ewww" from our own sense. Because of this, I have a problem with Haidt's social intutionist model, and I will not be incorporating it into my paper as a general non zero sum maker. Instead, my paper with Isa and Courtney works to create the gut reaction by shocking the reader and questioning ideas of political correctness and our judgement system by using reasonable arguments that seem disgusting.

As a side note, I've read some of Haidt's work and even taken some of his tests on yourmorals.org, which put people in bins of republican and democrat and you answer a few questions on purity, chastity, etc and rate how important they are to you, and then it releases a graph showing how you stand against people in your political party and in the opposite. For me, I was in my own category, far more left than the democrats that took the test too, but I don't think my political compass is necessarily about morals, more about politics. I don't know how to explain.