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If this really is true, might there be an in-built evolutionary aspect? That people who have an inbuilt tendency towards cleanliness have less chance of contra
by brc 16y ago
If this really is true, might there be an in-built evolutionary aspect? That people who have an inbuilt tendency towards cleanliness have less chance of contracting disease?
All those religious texts and 'cleanliness is next to Godliness' - surely it can't just be a modern phenomonen? Even baptism - the act of dunking onesself in a river - must be considered cleaning for the purposes of being superior?
Note I don't expect this to be taken seriously and I'm no theological expert, but there is a talking point why cleaning pops up so frequently in religious texts of all persuasions. There surely is an element of life instruction in religious texts that drop below the moral level (do not lie) and into the physical level (clean yourself)
- ajuc 16y agoIn Polish you literaly have "clean or dirty conscience", Bible also tells much about cleaning sbd's sins. I'd like to see if this is about language (people primmed with concept being close to each other in language skew their judgements), or is this universal link between ethic and hygiene. Maybe being clean is universaly considered good thing, but there are other more arbitrary associations that could be checked - for example in Polish "prawy" means "right" and also "good". Probably there are some cultures where it's the left that is associated with high ethic standards. These 2 cultures should skew their moral judgaments to opposite directions when primmed with either "right" or "left".
- brc 16y agoClean conscience is also a common English phrase, though, 'dirty conscience' isn't - but people would understand what you meant.