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I am pretty sure that I would not like to sit on a cafe seat recently vacated by an unwashed homeless nudist or perhaps a person with a bowel problem and therefore I have voted for 'under some conditions' |
Our society is overly obsessed with cleanliness, IMO. There have been studies done showing that we've only weakened our biological defenses against disease by constantly bathing, washing hands, wasting water.[/b][/quote]
I had to vote "no" regardless.
Perhaps society has gone overboard with cleanliness but there are reasons why we have hygiene laws regarding food service and hospital practices. I'm no science expert but here's my view.
Taking two fairly extreme scenarios, either we have
1. (allegedly) lowered biological defences and a cleaner environment generally with a negligible risk of some pervasive germ infecting/killing the population, or
2. we have people with stronger immunity to germs but possibly suffer more germ-induced ailments that may otherwise be avoided.
In my opinion regardless whether scenario 1 or 2 applies, there will always be some small risk of some nasty germ that infects/kills a subset of the population. Plus, with two you could have a lot of slightly sick people around. Couldn't be good for the economy.
So I vote we stay clean. And when it comes down to it I personally would not want to sit on a seat vacated by some unknown nude person, if I were nude also.