Potential lawsuits is exactly why all those signs are up instructing people to do what should be obvious. Lawyers are controlling more and more of society with every moment in time. They are helping us become a society of idiots.
A person can definitely become too obsessed with hygiene. My grandmother had an expression designed to be a remedy for such an obsession: she would say that a person has to eat a pound of dirt before they die.
Also coming to mind is Lady MacBeth, who washed her hands incessantly in her symbolic attempt to wash the blood that were on her hands for all the murders she convinced her husband to commit. It is when she finally commits suicide over it that King MacBeth makes perhaps the most moving speech in all of Shakespeare. I would quote it here, except that this note is already going to be fairly substantial.
In any case, the hygienic rules I personally follow is to shower every other day, brush/floss my teeth daily, and wash my hands when I get up in the morning, and once more before I eat dinner. Sometimes I wash my hands more, such as after people shake my hands. I mention all this not to provide Too Much Information about myself, but rather as a helpful guideline for people to follow in general. By the way, it makes no difference what kind of soap one uses, as long as one does use soap, and one's hands are immersed in soap and warm water for at least twenty seconds.
It is so true that often the wrong people seem to have a whole lot of wealth. I have heard that at least two-thirds of people who win the lottery, go bankrupt within five years. Then there are all those crazy celebrities, who have all the money in the world, yet act in such a bizarre manner.
Even putting aside his blatant antisemitism so as to not go off on a tangent, why in the world was Mel Gibson drinking and driving in the first place? The guy probably has hundreds of millions of dollars; I would think a man that powerful in Hollywood and that rich, would never, ever have to drink even one ounce of heavy liquor.
And what is with this Paris Hilton woman? Even her name sounds super-rich! I do not know even one person who has anything but contempt for her. She is the laughingstock of Hollywood. I do not think people resent her for her money, as much as for the fact that she is such a media whore, desperately having the need for millions of strangers to constantly see her in various stages of undress. Maybe I would not mind it nearly as much if she had the kind of face and body worth admiring!
Then there are people like Bill Gates, who seem like perfectly decent, sane human beings who have contributed something substantial to society, yet I cannot figure such people out either. Last time I checked, Bill Gates has sixty BILLION dollars. It has been said that he has so much money, that if he were walking down the street and a one hundred dollar bill fell from his pocket, that it would not be worth his time to bend over and pick it up.
What mystifies me about such a person is, why in the world does he keep on working? If I would ever take the trouble of buying a lottery ticket and winning, say, four million dollars (I would need that much to retire due to taxes as well as the cost of buying a home), I would never work another day in my life. That is exactly what happened to philosopher George Santayana: he was in the middle of teaching a philosophy class at some major university, when somebody came into class with a note indicating that the professor had just inherited a large fortune. Right then and there, without even waiting for that hour of class to finish, he announced his retirement and never worked another day in his life.
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