0 If behaviour or beliefs, etc. are repugnant, they are very unpleasant, causing a feeling of disgust:
If you accept general hedonism, you must either embrace the repugnant conclusion or alternatively deny utilitarianism.
To anyone with even mild liberal leanings, such a view should be counterintuitive at best, if not repugnant.
Classical utilitarianism applied to populations of varying size implies the repugnant conclusion.
I have spent much of my career lambasting linguistic prejudice, so this idea is especially repugnant.
In a similar vein, we argue until we have come close to the repugnant conclusion.
Put bluntly, injection of potassium to procure feticide may be acceptable, but injecting potassium into a newborn would be, to most, repugnant.
That contemptible and repugnant "message" is what should be challenged and opposed, not the right to express it.
The lower it is set, the more repugnant the outcomes we are driven to acknowledge as better.