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Post #709040

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darth_ender
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The thread where we make enemies out of friends, aka the abortion debate thread
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Date created
2-Jun-2014, 11:42 PM

Bingowings said:

I avoid antibacterial detergents specifically to not unnecessarily kill bacteria.

There are lethally harmful bacteria, there are annoying bacteria and there are useful bacteria as well as bacteria essential for living on this planet in this time.

Killing them willy-nilly is just as bad as having a leisurely attitude to traumatic surgery.

 Wow.  Most bacteria that are beneficial are already inside of you.  You are not eating them off your hands.  Your efforts to avoid killing them is not assuring you greater longevity because you think you are preserving essential bacteria.  Using non-antibacterial soap will still kill many, though many others will thrive elsewhere.  As you live from moment to moment, your body is killing bacteria that has managed to penetrate your outer defenses.  Every time you take antibiotics because of a serious infection, you are massacring trillions of those little prokaryotes, including those that are good for you.

Bacteria will not only outlast you, they will outlast humanity.  They are the most adaptable species on the planet.  Have no fear.

But what astounds me about this post is the irony: more protectiveness towards bacteria than towards a zygote?  A part of me hopes this is one of your sarcastic posts, trying to tie the saving of both together, but you seem pretty sincere.