It annoys me when people are antiseptic to the max. It’s good to get some germs, actually.
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it strikes me as a cultural affectation, actually
in the same genre as ‚table manners‘ (which are about signalling allegiance to the culinary practices of an imagined aristocracy) a kind of bourgeois affectation or performance of cleanliness or purity
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what‘s been selected for is the desire for status, not the specific behaviour
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So would you say the aversion to fecal matter and necrotic tissue is just cultural or memetic? I find that very hard to believe.
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Similarly, in the opposite direction, we would be expected to be genetically inclined cultivate a healthy environment for our gut biome. Being wholly antiseptic would not be good for this.
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