The purity violation here, the trigger for the feeling of disgust, is associated with the divinity ethic. Metaphorically, we experience these “uncivilized” acts as a form of desecration, as a form of contamination via a movement away from the angels and toward the animalistic. This is how notions of propriety and dignity become associated with disgust psychology. Failures of dignity and propriety are divinity ethic violations, which are regulated by the compound metaphor of purity and verticality.
