On 19 Sep 2007 at 10:25:11 +0000, fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
More a matter of disposing of poop. We have to keep at it. You do it yourself. I know you do...
And when you encounter poop, your obvious, common-sense inclination will be that this is a substance that needs to be disposed of. And in normal circumstances this will be entirely correct.
But...
If you're a medical lab technician, you may need to analyze stool stamples to assist a doctor in making a diagnosis.
If you're a farmer, you may have cause to obtain manure in order to make use of it as fertilizer.
If you're a sewer maintenance worker, you and your work crew may need to get your hands dirty rooting around in the muck of others' poop in order to make a much-needed repair.
If you're an environmentalist, you may have public-policy opinions regarding the disposal of poop that differ from the commonly assumed methods used by contemporary civilization; for instance, you may think it ecologically superior to compost it rather than flush it away.
If you're writing an encyclopedia article on [[feces]], you may find yourself compelled to think and write more on the subject than the average person is likely to wish to read about. You may even want to take a picture of the stuff to illustrate the article.
If you swallowed a valuable diamond ring, you might want to try to retrieve it from your other end, as gross as that is.
Simple, obvious, common-sense principles may not work in all cases as flat, exception-free rules.