Evidence in support of this notion is observed in an interesting exception to disgust responses regarding bodily fluids. Specifically, all bodily fluids, except one, are reliable disgust stimuli. Blood, vomit, urine, semen, sweat, and puss, all are found, generally speaking, to be disgusting. The one exception is the bodily fluid that seems quintessentially human and spiritual: tears.12 Given that tears are associated with the deepest and most profound human experiences, tears are considered to be a kind of spiritual fluid, a fluid that separates us from the animals rather than identifies us
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