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  %HYGIENE HEALTH DISEASE BACTERIA VIRUS GERMS EVIL+970130
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     Some people have ritualized practical  considerations
of  cleanliness  and developed  compulsive  preoccupations
with  ritualistic cleanliness codes---for which  practical
considerations are not determinative.   Some non-practical
considerations  are  determinative,   and  often  lead  to
alienative  human  relationships;  rather than  to  better
health.

     When  practical  considerations  have  given  way  to
ritualistic  preoccupations,   the preoccupations  may  be
expressed in:

     1.  Avoidance  of  people  who  are   ritualistically
"unclean"---even  though for all practical  considerations
they  are  clean  and not at all likely  to  transmit  any
disease.    Ritualisticly  "unclean"  becomes a  tool  for
separating "them"  from "us"; a means for widening the gap
between opposing populations which are ignorant about  and
alienated from each other.  The tool is used to accentuate
conflicts, misunderstandings, and self-righteousness.

     2.  Focusing  upon obeying rules---rather  than  upon
being  sensitive  to  people's  needs,   desires,   fears,
anxieties,  hopes, aspirations, experiences,  perceptions,
feelings and other emotions.  People get out of touch with
each other's realities and their environments.

     3.  Attempting  to elaborate and perfect the  set  of
cleanliness rules in terms of which to try to be perfectly
clean; the better the set of rules which are being obeyed,
the  better  are  the conformal people who obey  the  more
perfect rules.   Self-righteousness and self-condemnations
abound --- rather than healthy communities.

                                                                                                                               
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