Right to Life

Today at lunch we were discussing hand washing techniques and how normal people do not wash the top sides of their fingers very well.  The face of your fingers?  Check.  Palms?  Check.  Up to your wrists or higher if your are crazy?  Check.  Maybe even the sides of your fingers as you interlock your hands?  Check minus?  But the tops of you fingers?  That is crazy talk.

This led me to exclaim that I don't wash my hands.  I support bacteria's Right to Life.

I have beef (I'm clever sometimes) with vegetarians who don't eat meat because it is "wrong" to kill animals.



My claim is simple.  At what size / complexity does the organism in question loose its right to life in your book?  You don't want to eat beef, that would be killing a cow.  Gotcha.  How about a chicken?  Still too big?  Grasshopper? Come on, a grasshopper doesn't even have a vertebrae.



How about a mosquito?  What did you do the last time a mosquito bit you?  You squished it, that's what you did.  OK, lets say you are that crazy person that picks up a daddy long legs up (ripping off three legs in the process) in your bathroom and sets it down somewhere outside.  Even if you ARE that crazy person, I bet you washed your hands the last time you visited the bathroom.

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At a minimum, you took your monthly shower with environmentally friendly soap and put on environmentally sound deodorant (that doesn't really work).  Do you know how many bacteria you just sentenced to death?  Millions!  What about their right to life?  What is the difference?  Where do you draw the line and why there?

For that matter, what is the difference between animals and the vegetables you eat?  Those plants were alive before you killed them to eat them.  I fail to see the difference.

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and since we're on the topic of Bear Grylls

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