dragonrazor
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This rebuttal hits more on the discrepancy between social stigma and real life. The idea of unclean is more than about germs, it involves the justification for us assuming we are better than animals - more evolved, more intelligent, etc. There is a very strong social need to defend this because it gives us much of our value as human beings.
Its also very useful to keep "undesirables" in their place.
And that's where we hit upon my original path with the conversation. I apologize for not being able to say it as well as you did.
Not blindly. I just don't like people telling me what to do, and that's all monotheism is about (not to be confused with nontheistic religions like Buddhism, where one worships not a person or deity, but an ideal such as Enlightenment)