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Comment author: gjm 13 April 2016 03:37:38PM 0 points [-]

concepts far up the ladder of abstraction [...] trained System 1 responses.

I don't think there's any contradiction. (Compare: "introvert" and "extravert" are concepts far up the ladder of abstraction, but introverts and extraverts differ largely in their System 1 responses to various sorts of situation.)

(For what it's worth, reading your examples I feel strong moral disapproval about some of them but no disgust about any of them. I might consider describing some of them as "disgusting" but wouldn't mean it very literally.)