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Originally Posted by CDSmith
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to me, its not about whether or not its an imposition or not to wash your hands many extra times per day. i can use the same logic to suggest you do 1000 other things per day that aren't an "imposition" because it just takes a few minutes.
i usually take a couple showers a day. ... do i feel like touching anything and everything will kill me? cause infections? spread disease? uhm... no. do i feel unclean just because i touched my cock? no.
how far do you go? wash your hands in the bathroom and then firmly grab the door handle thats covered in bacteria, germs, viruses? or... do you wear gloves to prevent any transmission AFTER washing your hands? do we fear anything and everything because in spite of the fact that we're exposed to 1000's of horrible diseases, bacteria, germs etc daily like flesh eating viruses, hepititus or whatever out of the fear that in a 1:1,000,000,000 chance, our own immune system might fail us and we could say "oh... if i only had my super duty, anti bacterial, hospital quality soap with me... i might not be dying"
washing your hands obsessively is like anything else related to medicine. shit happens no matter what you do. you can't stop it. people get sick and die. it happens in all sorts of bizarre and unfair ways. i can make a case for doing 1,000,000 different things related to health and disease that can make your life safer (supposedly) just as you are trying right now. and...?
washing your hands like this has nothing to do with rational fears... it has EVERYTHING to do with some distorted and misguided personal idea that you are somehow safer. that you somehow have one more degree of control and say in your own mortality.
you body was doing just fine warding off all these alleged threats well before things were as clean as they are today. your body has been doing it for millions of years. it doesn't need your help combating the billions of germs, bacteria and virsuses it comes into contact with everyday. in fact, it has a massively complex system to fight and defend itself against these threats and washing your hands because you got piss on them (which is sterile anyway) doesn't do anything at all to change the fact that your entire day is filled with exponentially greater exposure to similar threats outside the bathroom.