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What is "a non-emotional aversion", given that aversion is usually defined as a "strong dislike" or a "feeling of repugnance"?
I was using Andrew Critch's definition of aversion: "a habit mechanism that steers you away from a thought or behavior".
Oh, OK. That's just not the first definition that comes to mind. To me aversion is a result of a feeling.
Without commenting on whether 'non-emotional aversion' is a practical use of language as conventionally defined, the first of Nisan's reasons reasons actual seems to resolve to approximately the same meaning that you mention. The second is the equivalent of that for subject rather than person. For example there are many who have a short list of subjects (including say "dating/sexism/gender anything") that they refuse to engage with on lesswrong and I doubt all of them do so based on 'emotional aversion'.
The intersection is often used in practice: "They have decided that they do not wish to speak to a given individual on a specific subject" (while they will talk to that individual about other things or that subjected with other people).