There are exceptions to that.

 strategy if you want …ed to influence or manipulate. “[Disgust] works through association,” said Pizarro in a TEDx talk. “When one disgusting thing touches a clean thing, that clean thing becomes disgusting — not the other way around. This becomes a very useful strategy if you want to convince someone that an object, or an individual or an entire social group ought to be avoided.”
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There are exceptions to that. For example, if a devout Catholic witnesses the Pope washing the feet of a person who looks disgusting, that person will be judged by the devout one as less disgusting, not the Pope more so.
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