It annoys me when people are antiseptic to the max. It’s good to get some germs, actually.
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Replying to @eugyppius1 @ThinkBot6
It has to be selected for to some degree.
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Replying to @KtheEphemeral @ThinkBot6
it strikes me as a cultural affectation, actually
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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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Replying to @eugyppius1 @ThinkBot6
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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Replying to @KtheEphemeral @ThinkBot6
not at all: obviously heightened sensibilities can hitch a ride on real instincts. aversion to fecal matter is universal and instinctive. aversion to sharing a bottle of water, not so much.
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Replying to @eugyppius1 @KtheEphemeral
It evolutionary advantageous, we need bacteria to process food, and for fighting bad species, we have a ph in the stomach, there is some balance that we have learnt to evolution, for instance in Africa, the hamzat eat raw meat and they don’t get sick while here we might do.
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totally right, there‘s a hygienic instinct. but the high germophobic sensitivity of many people in the west (what i took the op to be about) is a cultural matter.
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