Examples of repugnant

• 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.