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Jinn, let me ask you this. Let's say you were peeing off the balcony of your favorite hotel. Just as you start to drain, your girlfriend walks out from below, and looks up at you with adoration to ask you if you feel like going for a walk. You pee in her mouth. Just a little. She's not really enthused. Or maybe she is. Let me ask you this. Do you want to go down and kiss her, right then and there? I mean, it's clean. It's antiseptic. It's irrational. Do you want her to brush her teeth first?
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If she'd still have me after something like that, then no I wouldn't mind. Saying please and thank you isn't irrational or stupid, it conveys the thanks and appreciation you have for recieving the thanks. It allows us to get on in a civilized society, much like Janey said. There's a difference between showing appreciation for your fellow man (or woman) by being polite and civilized, and living a life in fear of the fluids of yourself or another. As a matter of fact, I could see an argument that being so paralyzed in fear of your own or another person's fluids is in fact the rude, "uncultured" response. How would you feel if you shook someone's hand and they wiped it off on their pants afterwards? That's not showing you much respect, now is it?
P.S. Janey, you taught me a new word. Comportment.
I like it.